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“Miracle garden” brings life, and food, to the urban wasteland

For 25 years, a devoted group of residents has tended a garden in a former dumping ground in East Baltimore. Its chief caretaker calls it "God's little acre."

Andrea Appleton Culture

Could the Monsanto Protection Act get repealed?

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is trying to roll back a provision that allows GMO crops to be planted even before they've been OK'd by the USDA.

Claire Thompson Technology

Nation’s biggest uranium mine planned in New Mexico

Companies from Japan and Canada want to build the mine on land held sacred by Native Americans, and the U.S. Forest Service may just say OK.

John Upton Technology

Can we blame climate change for the tornado that took out Moore, Okla.?

Sometimes natural disasters are just that: natural.

Susie Cagle Climate & Energy

Listen to your conscience, Grist readers

We're appealing to your altruistic superego in our quest to collect 2,500 generous gifts of support.

Susie Cagle Culture

Everyone relax, Sarah Palin has proven there’s no such thing as climate change

You know it's science because she used the Latin word for "ass."

Jess Zimmerman Climate & Energy

Nutella demands immediate cancellation of World Nutella Day

Oh Nutella, why won't you let us love you?

Jess Zimmerman Food

This awesome mobile lab travels the country measuring methane air pollution

It has, for instance, "a mast that rises up five stories, like a periscope."

Sarah Laskow Climate & Energy

World’s worst driver hits biker and brags about it on Twitter

If you're a biker, sometimes it feels like drivers are out to get you. Sometimes they are.

Sarah Laskow Culture

Best switcheroo ever: Scientists could extract gold with cornstarch instead of cyanide

Any time you can switch out cornstarch for cyanide in an industrial process, you're doing well.

Sarah Laskow Technology

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