Senator bets the farm against Monsanto

They say the way to a young person's heart is through his stomach, but this one might be a bit of a stretch.

The key to turning urban youth into anti-government crusaders? Food trucks

By Ryan Cooper

1 hour ago

Scientists studied really old DNA to figure out what caused the famine in the 1840s. They still don't quite know, but they think the mold is now extinct. Phew.

Mold responsible for Irish potato famine may be gone for good

By John Upton

3 hours ago

The Oklahoma senator opposed the Sandy aid bill, but says taxpayer assistance for tornado victims is a wholly worthy expenditure.

Inhofe supports tornado aid, says it’s “totally different” from Hurricane Sandy aid

By John Upton

4 hours ago

A big marketing campaign aims to convince Americans that Canada is a critical source of eco-friendly oil and that Keystone XL is a great idea.

Canada’s government is spending millions to get you to like the Keystone pipeline

By Claire Thompson

5 hours ago

Thank goodness for one little bitty bit of good news.

Watching a tornado victim find her lost dog will make you feel at least a little better for at least a minute

By Jess Zimmerman

18 hours ago

Zachary Maxwell sneaked a camera into his school cafeteria. From that footage was born his aptly titled documentary, "Yuck."

Fourth-grade filmmaker sneaks a camera into the cafeteria to document his gross school lunch

By Sarah Laskow

19 hours ago

Legislation in Congress tries to get the U.S. ready for an onslaught of climate-related maladies. It won't pass, but it's a nice effort.

Bill aims to tackle climate-caused health problems

By John Upton

20 hours ago

Living

This egg needs to be guarded 24 hours a day, because British egg collectors are CRAZY

Conservationists have been trying to bring common cranes back to Britain, and now one pair has laid an egg.

By Sarah Laskow

21 hours ago

Climate change is expected to boost the number of deaths in New York City's most densely populated borough, a new study finds.

Manhattan to see more killer heat waves

By John Upton

21 hours ago

Prague’s “love subway” will let single people find romance while they commute

It'll basically be like Amtrak's quiet car, except instead of sitting in silence, everyone will be scanning the car like they would a bar on a Saturday night.

By Sarah Laskow

21 hours ago

Business & Technology

More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S.

Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model S helped the industry reach this milestone. Meanwhile, Tesla plans to repay a government loan nine years early.

By John Upton

22 hours ago

Watch Monday's deadly tornado go from a neat, eerie-looking funnel to a giant mess of wind and destruction.

Staggering time-lapse footage of the Oklahoma tornado

By Jess Zimmerman

22 hours ago

Utilities are boring and opaque, but central to any clean-energy future. So it's time to demystify them. Here's a plainspoken intro to how they work, and why.

Utilities for dummies: How they work and why that needs to change

By David Roberts

1 day ago

For 25 years, a devoted group of residents has tended a garden in a former dumping ground in East Baltimore. Its chief caretaker calls it "God's little acre."

“Miracle garden” brings life, and food, to the urban wasteland

By Andrea Appleton

1 day ago

Business & Technology

Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico

Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.

By John Upton

1 day ago

Sometimes natural disasters are just that: natural.

Can we blame climate change for the tornado that took out Moore, Okla.?

By Susie Cagle

2 days ago

Living

Listen to your conscience, Grist readers

We're appealing to your altruistic superego in our quest to collect 2,500 generous gifts of support.

By Susie Cagle

2 days ago

You know it's science because she used the Latin word for "ass."

Everyone relax, Sarah Palin has proven there’s no such thing as climate change

By Jess Zimmerman

2 days ago

Oh Nutella, why won't you let us love you?

Nutella demands immediate cancellation of World Nutella Day

By Jess Zimmerman

2 days ago

It has, for instance, "a mast that rises up five stories, like a periscope."

This awesome mobile lab travels the country measuring methane air pollution

By Sarah Laskow

2 days ago

World’s worst driver hits biker and brags about it on Twitter

If you're a biker, sometimes it feels like drivers are out to get you. Sometimes they are.

By Sarah Laskow

2 days ago

Best switcheroo ever: Scientists could extract gold with cornstarch instead of cyanide

Any time you can switch out cornstarch for cyanide in an industrial process, you're doing well.

By Sarah Laskow

2 days ago

Cities

California almost got an amazing bicycle superhighway 116 years ago

It's too bad this beautiful bike path from the olden days never got a chance to exist.

By Sarah Miller

2 days ago

Tom Steyer has made waves in climate politics with big money and hard-nosed tactics. Grist chats with him about Keystone, EPA, Obama, and how to win the climate fight.

“If people aren’t pissed off, it ain’t working”: A chat with green billionaire Tom Steyer

By David Roberts and Chip Giller

2 days ago

European officials have raided the oil companies' offices, and now a U.S. senator wants an investigation launched on this side of the pond.

BP, Shell, Statoil accused of fixing oil prices

By John Upton

2 days ago

BP says it shouldn't have to pay so much to help companies hurt by the Deepwater Horizon spill. It wants the U.K. government to ask the U.S. government for help.

BP wants U.S. government to reduce court-ordered oil-spill payouts

By John Upton

2 days ago