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Can this coal plant save the climate?
Step inside the project that could be the key to Obama’s climate legacy … or a multibillion-dollar boondoggle.
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Gold-medal skier Ted Ligety raps with a snowflake to save winter
Another Olympian jumps into the climate fight, this time with a slightly depressed ice crystal.
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Watch a pangolin play in the mud like a puppy
These endangered creatures look like walking artichokes. They also happen to be adorable.
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Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself. We cannot claim that we are unaware of the trends that are undermining our food supply and thus our civilization. We know what we […]
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Wish you could fertilize crops with pee? Urine luck
The Rich Earth Institute leads the way in showing America how to "peecycle."
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Attn. babies: Don’t be born poor and black in North Carolina
A new EPA study finds that poor black kids are more likely to arrive in this world underweight and undernourished, on top of being underprivileged.
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Want everyone else to buy into environmentalism? Never say “Earth”
A veteran marketer says green organizations must drop the nature imagery, talk about people, and repeat, repeat, repeat if they want to move the needle on climate.
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Don’t worry: Your rail trail is (probably) safe
A Supreme Court ruling this week was a bit of bad news for rails-to-trails advocates, but it won't actually affect most such trails.
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San Francisco moves to ban plastic water bottles, scoffs at every other sad city
San Francisco is clearly vying for the title of Most Sustainable City in the United States.
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Talk talk: Political junkies discuss Senate chat on climate
Watch some people (including Grist's Ben Adler) talk about other people (senators) talking about stuff (the state of the climate). So meta!
