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There have been 5 — yes, 5! — monster hurricanes in the eastern Pacific this year
And we're only halfway through the season.
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How can we stop the world from having too many babies? Feed more people
If we aim to slow the rocketing population graph, all the evidence points in the same direction: prosperity cuts the birth rate, which will spare the planet.
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Grow your own California mountain. Just add drought
Turns out extreme drought can move mountains, too.
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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.
