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What kind of laundry soap is lightest on the land?
A reader wonders whether to go with liquid or powder. Umbra gives him the straight scoop.
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Amtrak wait? Blame the freight
Rail is a great way to ship your stuff and yourself for a cross-country move. If only we hadn't built a system that gives slow freight the right of way.
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It’s a historic year for temperature extremes
In the U.S., we're living in two countries: one scourged by heat and the other bitten by cold.
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Why Kansas is doing flour right
How Little Red Hen Bakery is building a better food system.
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Watch the world go up in fracking flares
Natural gas flares join city lights and the Great Wall of China as stuff you can see from space.
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Perdue just says no to chicken on drugs
One big poultry producer ditches most use of antibiotics. Now it's time for the rest of the industry to follow -- and for doctors to stop overprescribing them to us.
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Grist is looking for the spring 2015 class of fellows
Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then Grist wants you!
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Will Obama do the right thing on smog this time?
Over the coming year, the president will either repeat or undo one of his greatest insults to the environmental community -- and to the nation's air quality.
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Think the Southwest’s drought is bad now? It could last a generation or more
Late-summer 2014 has brought uncomfortable news for residents of the U.S. Southwest — and I'm not just talking about 109-degree heat.
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