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Forecast for the Northeast by 2070: Much warmer, much rainier winters
Winters in the Northeastern U.S. will have less snow and more rain in the future. As a native, I find this heartbreaking.
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Geoengineering expert: Tinkering with climate is tempting, also ‘kind of insane’
Re-engineering the climate is often dismissed as quackery, but will desperation and runaway warming drive us to it? Granger Morgan thinks it might.
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Community health centers rise up from toxic brownfields
New health centers for low-income people are being built on formerly contaminated land -- finally, brownfields redevelopment that helps locals.
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This 40-foot Christmas tree is made of 40,000 recycled plastic bottles
Kaunas, Lithuania killed two turtledoves with one stone: no trees had to die, and a lot of trash found a new life.
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Hot tip: It’s hard to mount a camera onto a shark
Brb, going to catch a shark, control it, and get in the water with it. No bigs.
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2012 saw the fewest wildfires in a decade — but the second-most acres burned ever
NASA's map of the year's wildfires in the U.S. is jaw-dropping.
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Now someone is trying to sell human-poop coffee
Joke? Not a joke? What avid, Portland-dwelling Grist List reader wants to respond to this ad and find out?
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Americans are quite literally giving their gold and silver away
Mining companies don't have to pay any royalties at all to extract precious metals from public land. A new GAO report highlights the absurdity.
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Signs of the apocalypse: Kangaroo-on-dog belly rubs, cats nursing hedgehogs
We know, we know, it's totally irrational to think that the world is going to end on Dec. 21. But then you see something like a kangaroo giving a dog a belly rub ...
