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Featured Friend: Dan D.
Each month, we showcase one of our beloved Friends with Benefits — folks who have donated to support our work. Want to take your relationship with Grist to the next level? Just donate any amount to join the fun. Dan D. “I recently supported Grist with a donation because the news and views I get from these […]
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Wings are now the caviar of chicken
People love wings at Superbowl time. We know that. But did you know that now they really, really love them? Yeah. It's nuts.
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Attack of the leafy greens: Is your lunch plotting against you?
A new government report says greens are the No. 1 cause of food-borne illness. Should we all stop eating salad now?
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Professional athletes are spraying deer antler velvet into their mouths
There is a great kerfuffle in the sports world over a bunch of football players who have been taking performance-enhancing supplements containing extracts from deer antler velvet.
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NYC’s newest subway line is actually beginning to look like a subway
According to the available evidence, it might actually open one of these days. It might even actually be cool.
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Humans have already set in motion 69 feet of sea-level rise
Glaciologist Jason Box describes a post-warming world that you won’t even be able to recognize.
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The cost of not using renewable energy
A new study finds that using up our fossil fuels now, making them less available in the future, imposes big costs down the line.
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The EPA reaches out to LGBT youth with own ‘It Gets Better’ video
The Environmental Protection Agency reaches out to LGBT youth with its own "It Gets Better" video. Yes, the environment includes people too.
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100 Days of Action for Climate, Clean Energy Kicks Off with Coast to Coast Events
In the two weeks since the Sierra Club launched our Obama Climate and Clean Energy Legacy campaign, Sierra Club volunteers, chapters, organizers, and allies have held more than 30 inspiring (and fun!) launch events nationwide. The events they organized from coast to coast kick off 100 Days of Action, from the Inauguration to Earth Day, […]
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Air Force pilots can now suck key lime pie and truffled macaroni out of tubes
According to the the pilots and the tube food developers, the mush inside the tubes is "the very height of culinary achievement." Except, at one point, the peach melba, which in early stages of development "had a 'dirty sock kind of taste.'"
