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Catching up with Andrew Simon, host of Grist’s Temperature Check
Grist’s director of programming explains how, and why, he decided to combine climate, race, and culture in a podcast he calls his “most exciting -- and terrifying -- project.”
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Biden’s latest appointment, John Kerry, signals how the new administration will handle the climate crisis
Joe Biden names John Kerry to a cabinet-level post focused on climate.
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We need a global leader on plastics. Could it be Biden?
Trump isolated the U.S. from global climate efforts, but Biden can move quickly to collaborate, especially on the plastic problem.
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He’s bringing solar power to Puerto Rico — and political power to its people
In its latest project, Arturo Massol-Deyá’s nonprofit is helping small businesses produce their own energy and rebuild the local economy on their own terms.
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Want to fix your own Tesla? Massachusetts just made it easier.
Tesla, which has made it difficult for independent shops to fix its cars, may soon have to give its customers a wider peek under the digital hood.
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How to prepare kids for the climate crisis? Cara Hoffman’s books might help.
In her fantastical frog story, a marsh full of creatures fights industrial waste.
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These rare seeds escaped Syria’s war — to help feed the world
Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
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Count on Biden to restore the national monuments Trump trashed
The president-elect has vowed to not only reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of protected sites, but designate new ones.
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This entrepreneur is plugging the world’s drinking water into the (digital) cloud
Meena Sankaran, founder and CEO of California-based startup KETOS, dove into the competitive market of sensor tech to help solve the water crisis.
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The first step to bridging the urban ‘canopy gap’? Counting and mapping trees.
A new project uses "tree equity" to promote environmental justice.
