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Did you say ‘sea-level rise’? You liberal.

China asked foreign embassies to stop publishing air pollution data? Can you imagine! The nerve of repressing scientific knowledge. Meanwhile, in Virginia ...

Philip Bump Health

Peebottle Farms: Insta-heirloom

After her chickens destroy the spring garden starts, our urban farming columnist goes on an heirloom seed-seeking adventure.

Nina Lalli Agriculture

Ask Umbra: Is my single-serve coffeemaker wasteful?

A reader frets about his caffeine-delivery equipment. Umbra gives him a dose of reality.

Ask Umbra® Culture

‘Screaming headlines’ vs. reasonable people: A talk with the EPA’s Lisa Jackson

In her time at the helm of the Enivronmental Protection Agency, Jackson has gone from crusading to embattled. She talks with us about false choices between green ideals and greenbacks, the power of peer review, and cleaning up coal.

Chip Giller & Scott Rosenberg Climate & Energy

Chicken soup for the soil: Cleaning up toxic earth in Philadelphia [VIDEO]

This video follows an experimental soil-focused art project in Philadelphia with a goal of one day making contaminated "brownfields" safe to farm on.

Grist staff Agriculture

Pennsylvania gives Shell a sweet, crude deal

In order to convince the oil giant to open an ethane plant in the state Pennsylvania sweetens the pot with 1.65 billion pounds of sugar.

Philip Bump Energy

Teaser: Ridin’ bikes with U.N. suits

Full story coming Monday. But here's a glimpse at what a very short bike ride with well-dressed UN envoys looks like.

Philip Bump Culture

Climate change causes monster patch of microscopic plants in the Arctic

There aren’t supposed to be microscopic plants called phytoplankton blooming in the Arctic right now — usually that doesn’t happen until after the ice melts in the summer, i.e. months from now. But a research team has just discovered a huge, 60-mile-long, three-foot-thick slick of phytoplankton where no phytoplankton should be. It was “like finding […]

Jess Zimmerman Science

Austin dims its lights, everyone + science wins

A city council decision to invest $15 million in efficient lighting is not only a smart move, it's part of a great tradition started in Silicon Valley.

Philip Bump Buildings

Protests temporarily delay opening Alabama forests to drilling

Key word there: temporarily.