Climate Culture
All Stories
-
![]()
![]()
Bears in Russia are getting high by huffing airplane fuel
Not to be a narc or anything, but animals get high a LOT. And these Russian bears have figured out how to get high off gasoline fumes.
-
![Philipp Stingl]()
![Philipp Stingl]()
Mini-mansions are all the rage
Both industrial designers and industrious teens alike are engineering tiny paragons of sustainable living. Behold some of our recent favorites.
-
![]()
![]()
Thanks for the oil, Iraq, here’s some cancer
Depleted uranium from U.S. munitions is suspected of causing a huge spike in birth defects and all kinds of cancers in Iraq.
-
![]()
![]()
Why in the world are so many manatees dying?
Manatees are dying off both Florida coasts, and by God we want the culprit brought to justice! (It's probably us.)
-
![]()
![]()
How scientists are bringing this weird, extinct, baby-barfing frog back from the dead
The frog DNA sat around for 40 years before scientists used cloning technology to bring the species back to life.
-
![]()
![]()
Watch a penguin play games on an iPad
Considering that touch screens are not exactly optimized for seabird use, they're actually pretty good at it.
-
![]()
![]()
Red, Bike & Green wants to shift the color balance in bicycling
The Bay Area's bicycling culture was lacking in the diversity department. Jenna Burton set out to change that.
-
![]()
![]()
You eat less if you know exactly how many miles you’ll have to walk to burn it off
A recent study shows little changes to menus can make a big difference to health outcomes.
-
![]()
![]()
This guy built an authentic passenger rail car in his basement
To make this subterranean transit-geek wonderland, self-described "train-obsessed nutcase" Jason Shron went in with a friend on a decades-old train car that was slated to be scrapped.
-
![]()
![]()
Ask Umbra: On holey jeans, holey socks, and dyeing clothes
Readers ask about that holiest of all topics: their clothes. Umbra sends some smoke signals up the Grist chimney.
