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Christie was the only Republican asked about climate at the main debate — and he got it all wrong
Chris Christie acknowledges that climate change is real, but his comments about it at Wednesday's debate were still awfully ignorant.
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Exclusive: Israel Nash covers Wilco’s “Jesus, Etc.”
We're kicking off the new season of Grist's Pickathon On the Farm with Israel Nash tackling a Wilco classic.
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These two Republican presidential candidates defended climate science during debate
Watch George Pataki and Lindsey Graham say CO2 is heating up the planet. Too bad they were at the second-tier debate instead of the first.
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Does eco-friendly shampoo have a short shelf life?
Should we toss natural beauty products more often than conventional brands? Umbra applies herself to a fresh question.
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Elon Musk’s solar company used panels made by cheap prison labor for a big taxpayer-subsidized project
SolarCity installed arrays of panels made by inmates who earned just 93 cents an hour.
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Is the USDA trying to silence a pesticide researcher?
A whistleblower complaint says the feds suspended a researcher because they didn't like his findings that a popular pesticide is harmful to monarch butterflies.
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This ad might be one of the only factual things you’ll hear during the Republican debate
The 30-second commercial about climate change is part of a TV ad buy from NextGen Climate.
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Will Obama come close to ending mass incarceration?
As President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, he continues to open and build new federal prisons in environmentally toxic areas.
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Fossil fuel companies aren’t just bad for the climate — they’re bad investments
A new report from Carbon Tracker finds that dirty energy industries are ignoring risks of declining demand, and they’ll suffer for it.
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The Middle East could be looking at 140-degree days thanks to climate change
A new study suggests that, unless we cut carbon emissions drastically, the Persian Gulf is going to become an uninhabitable inferno.
