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Ants will save the world! Wait, ants?
Ants might be able to speed up carbon dioxide absorption in rocks. Is this a viable way to fight global warming?
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Tesla is becoming the 800-pound green jobs gorilla
As states vie for the automaker's new battery factory, it is being showered with tax breaks -- and California is even considering waiving environmental rules.
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When climate disaster strikes, just hit the reset button
Video games like the eerie "Mountain" can help explain climate change. But can they make us act before it's game over for real?
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Soy vey! Monsanto just lost its GM permit in the Yucatán
A judge in Mexico has ruled that genetically modified soy presents a danger to bees -- and also to the honey industry.
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Rather than killing sharks, this town moves them away from human-infested waters
Recife, Brazil, has taken a shockingly non-hysterical approach to reducing shark attacks. Fly fishers everywhere call it catch-and-release.
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We tried to forage dinner from a city park, and here’s what happened
In which the Grist staff learns how to feed ourselves in the most hyper-local, waste-conscious, and resourceful way possible.
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This new app may help design bike lanes in Germany
A free app traces cyclists’ routes as they ride onto a single map, intended to help city planners create new bike paths where they're needed most.
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When did Republicans start hating green? When green started helping blacks
A new study dates the GOP's distaste for the environment to 1992, just as the country was realizing that policies were steering pollution disproportionately to communities of color and low income.
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Weed could be resistant to GMO labeling in Colorado
Colorado is gearing up for a ballot fight on labeling genetically engineered food products. It looks like the initiative doesn't give cannabis a pass.
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Harvesting energy from our eyelids? Don’t worry, it’s just art
An industrial designer and artist dreams up a line of devices that could pull energy from the human body.
