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Grist wants to give you this bike
If you donate now to help celebrate 15 years of Grist, you’ll automatically be entered to win!
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Honoring the legacy of Billy Frank Jr.
A fishing-rights activist and a leader of the tribal sovereignty movement, Billy Frank Jr. passed away on Monday at the age of 83.
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Sorry, Vegas: You just can’t fake being prepared for climate change
Sin City is a master of fakery and impersonation. But behind the sunglasses, it has had to grapple with some thorny realities — and climate change is bringing more.
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Now, some carbon research even climate deniers can get bummed over
New evidence suggests that increasing levels of carbon, by itself -- not via the hotter climate it yields -- could cause malnutrition.
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We’ve cleaned up our air, but now climate change is making it dirty again
The U.S. has made progress on curbing ozone pollution, but we're poised to backslide because hot weather worsens the ozone problem.
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Five ways we’re killing ourselves with climate change
The National Climate Assessment, recently released by the Obama administration, makes clear that climate change is deadly, and Americans are already dying from it.
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To Live Dangerously or Not to Live Dangerously? It’s Our Choice
What’s next? What can I do? Those are questions you might be pondering if you tuned into Years of Living Dangerously on Showtime this weekend, or if you’ve been watching online clips from the “Preacher’s Daughter” story that was featured on Sunday night. In the episode, actor Ian Somerhalder follows Anna Jane Joyner, a young […]
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The 12 things the Obama administration wants you to know about climate change
Climate change is affecting you, right now. Yeah, you. That's the topline message of the new National Climate Assessment published by the White House.
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We’ve come a long way, baby
Grist is turning 15, so we're exploiting our younger selves with the hope that you'll be amused enough to make a donation.
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How to Phase Out Incentives and Grow Solar Energy
Over the next decade, solar electricity will let consumers get cheaper energy from their rooftop than from their utility. Among the upheaval in the electricity system, the coming of solar “grid parity” means re-thinking incentives for solar energy. The success of solar is remarkable, no less because the amount of federal subsidy in absolute terms […]
