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Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to cut pedestrian deaths to zero begins to make a little headway, building off a long-term trend.

Heather Smith Cities

These ads tell us What Americans Want Now -- and as we know, our spending habits are the biggest part of our climate impact.

Grist staff Technology

By planting 30,000 trees, Melbourne, Australia, could lower its core temperature by 7 degrees. How cool is that?

Liz Core Cities

With "equitable development," planners say they've finally figured out how to make sustainable, healthy neighborhoods accessible to everyone.

Brentin Mock Cities

Climate change is making Iceland taller and more volcanic, a new study finds.

John Light Climate & Energy

Forget about the trade-offs between free commerce and regulation. Poor farmers need government both to help build markets and to trim red tape.

Nathanael Johnson Technology

A reader wonders where best to get her sugar fix. Umbra gets granular.

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Global warming and overfishing are killing Lake Victoria, leaving locals to scramble for solutions.

Tim McDonnell Climate & Energy

Climate change, vaccines, GMOs: Where Americans just don't get science.

Tim McDonnell Climate & Energy

We pitted Boston and Seattle against each other based on some of our favorite urban metrics -- like transit, oysters, and celebrity activists.

Grist staff Culture

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