Just over a year ago, New York’s transportation commissioner was raked over the coals for her romance with bikes. Now, it seems the city has fallen for them too.

No, it wasn’t an artistic statement about transportation and modern society. It was a busted water main — just the latest in a city and state where infrastructure has been neglected for far too long.

The band’s introspective dread may not pump you up for a protest rally. But its willingness to face despair head on might be just what climate activists need.

More science will not cure climate skeptics and pandering to conservatives can only win battles, not the war. So, what’s the right strategy in the climate fight?

A hole-in-the wall museum in Pittsburgh, run by an oddball art professor, offers a sober — and sobering — glimpse of what we’ve done to life as we know it. Good? Bad? You make the call.

Yes, the Heartland Institute shot itself in the foot with its stupid Unabomber billboard. But what really hurt was the anti-Heartland campaign joined by tens of thousands of citizen activists.

The creator of the new DIY-themed book “Homesweet Homegrown” shares a few secrets and a recipe.

How can you prevent turning red while staying green? Umbra takes on this burning issue.

Recent science linking portion size and calorie intake suggests that banning extra large servings of soda might actually keep New Yorkers healthier.

A new study finds that large-scale irrigation is causing more sea-level rise than climate change. And yet the most powerful nations in the world just gave industrial agriculture a big thumbs up.

ParkScore measures and ranks the park systems of the country’s 40 largest cities. How does your hometown stack up?

Grist’s green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, quit shopping, cold turkey, for a month. Well, almost. What do you think — in the No New Stuff challenge, did she pass or fail?

We visit an e-waste collection center and recycling facility to follow deceased gadgets as they go through the stages of reincarnation.

A growing number of states are requiring proper disposal of electronics. Here’s what you need to know about the e-waste recycling process.

The Food and Drug Administration officially rejected the Corn Refiners Association’s request to refer to HFCS as the more benign-sounding “corn sugar” in packaged food ingredient lists.