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Are you there, God? It’s me, climate scientist
Scientists use handwritten letters to share their sad, sad feelings about climate change.
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Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
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Leaving Las Vegas, a city feeling the slow burn of climate change
I came for the apocalypse. I got art instead.
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How one Pacific Northwest tribe is carving out a resistance to coal — and winning
A Grist fellow visited the Lummi Nation, to find out how the tribe has been able to successfully push back (so far) against Big Coal.
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Killing young black men like Michael Brown is unsustainable in every sense of the word
In a world that is heating and cooling at increasingly uncontrollable rates, we need more black youth learning how to work with sustainable technology, and less of them in jail or dead.
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Ants will save the world! Wait, ants?
Ants might be able to speed up carbon dioxide absorption in rocks. Is this a viable way to fight global warming?
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Public art, environment, history, and the locals all collide in the Anacostia River
Artist Mia Feuer wanted to submerge a gas station in the river, but locals fought back. We unpack all the reasons why.
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5 things I learned from DOJ’s elder statesman on environmental justice
A chance meeting in a Washington, D.C., bookstore turned into an hours-long conversation. Here are the highlights.
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Fabien Cousteau pulls a Spongebob to live at the bottom of the sea for a month
This grandson of Jacques just lived in a James Bond-style undersea capsule, studying the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs.
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Sort of like the love train, but with a rapping polar bear
From Emeryville, Calif., to the Big Apple, by rail, for the big September climate rally. It only takes three days. But there are workshops!