Nathanael Johnson

Nathanael Johnson (@savortooth on Twitter) is Grist's senior writer and the author of two books.

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What if a city decides it can live without a freeway?
Go nuts

How to protect our food from a crazy climate? Consider the hazelnut.
Judging dread

Are you biased against nuclear power? Yup, say scientists
Shell game

Shell shows how Big Oil cracks up over climate change
Report card

So what did California do with that $1.4 billion in cap-and-trade money?
watts up

Electrifying news: Solar and wind power has quintupled in a decade
what's in a name?

‘Regenerative agriculture’: World-saving idea or food marketing ploy?
finny business

What’s the catch? With seafood, it’s often a mystery.
cleanup krewe

Mardi Gras floods New Orleans in plastic beads. One scientist has a gooey fix.