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  • Down the Colorado

    As a native Coloradan, photographer Peter McBride always wondered how long it took irrigation water from his family’s cattle ranch to reach the Colorado River and ultimately the sea. That question sent McBride (with author Jonathon Waterman) on a two-year journey to follow the water. He photographed the Colorado, mostly from the air, in an […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Ecosystem conservation vs. renewable-energy development: Let’s hike on it

    Adam Bradley, hiking for an important cause.Sometimes the push for clean energy runs up against the push to preserve unspoiled wild areas (see: Cape Wind).  Big wind farms and solar-power systems are being sited in remote and undeveloped spots, and long transmission lines are being planned to carry their output to population centers, where the […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy

  • The story of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [PHOTOS]

    Photo: Transocean The Deepwater Horizon oil rig, owned by the Houston company Transocean, drilled the deepest oil well in history (35,050 feet) in September 2009 in the Gulf of Mexico. In January, the rig moved to a British Petroleum project 120 miles southeast of New Orleans.

    Grist staff Technology

  • Live Chat with Umbra Fisk

    Editor’s note: The chat’s now over, but you can replay it in full. Umbra Fisk chatted live with our Friends with Benefits on April 21, 2010. And in the midst of tackling a range of questions from TV dinners to diapers to vampires, Umbra was asked to prom. Watch the replay to read her answer. […]

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