Articles by Senior Staff Writer Matt Simon
Matt Simon is a senior writer at Grist, covering climate solutions. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Wired magazine. He’s the author of three books, most recently A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
All Articles
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![A wet, gray freeway in the rain filled with cars and a truck, lined by tall trees and palm trees.]()
![A wet, gray freeway in the rain filled with cars and a truck, lined by tall trees and palm trees.]()
Los Angeles just showed how spongy a city can be
Amid relentless rains, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water — enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
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![An overhead shot of a grain silo set on a farm with rolling fields.]()
![An overhead shot of a grain silo set on a farm with rolling fields.]()
Why humans are putting ‘coal’ and ‘oil’ back in the ground
Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It’s like fossil fuels, but in reverse.
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![A corn field.]()
![A corn field.]()
The long, leguminous quest to give crops nitrogen superpowers
Farmers have to apply heaps of emissions-heavy fertilizer to provide crops with enough nitrogen. Scientists are looking to legumes for help.
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![Sea ice (R) is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft on March 29, 2017 above Ellesmere Island, Canada.]()
![Sea ice (R) is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft on March 29, 2017 above Ellesmere Island, Canada.]()
Underwater permafrost is a big, gassy wild card for the climate
You’ve probably heard of permafrost, the frozen carbon-rich land. But it’s also thawing under the sea, burping up planet-warming gases.
