Uncategorized
All Stories
-
![secret agent with a megaphone]()
![secret agent with a megaphone]()
Mission astonished: Thanks for your donations!
Grist's year-end fundraising appeal hit its mark. Here are the numbers.
-
Expanding Dust Bowls Worsening Food Prospects in China and Africa
By Janet Larsen When most people hear the term “dust bowl,” they think of the American heartland in the 1930s, when a homesteading wheat bonanza led to the plowing up of the Great Plains’ native grassland, culminating in the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Despite warnings from researchers and some farmers, history repeated itself […]
-
10-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM makes them real
Better pedestrian infrastructure for all! And especially adorable children.
-
NASA once planned to feed astronauts emergency fruitcake
You have to love any story that begins, "During the 1970s and 1980s the US military conducted a series of tests on fruitcake."
-
This fancy bee is named after a dumb catchphrase from a sitcom
In an attempt to make people care about nature, scientists have named a bee after something a character says on TV
-
Horrible robot horse is probably the only animal we’ll be left with soon enough
In the bleak, featureless wasteland of the future, these nightmare horses will do just fine.
-
New species discovered in Asia include a singing frog and a walking fish
Some of these animals are suspiciously advanced.
-
Mistletoe has better things to do than give you excuses to kiss people
Mistleltoe is a lot more than what you make out under. It helps the environment. And the better the environment, the more you make out.
-
Charlotte’s airport employs 1.9 million worms to compost leftover food
Charlotte has invested $1.2 million in better solutions for dealing with the food passengers throw away, including a giant vermicomposting bin. It's 50 feet long!
-
There’s another habitable planet out there, just waiting for us to come and screw it up
It's not even in galaxy, far, far, away. It's orbiting Tau Ceti, a star that's a mere 12 light years from us
