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Young people expect the future to look like Thunderdome
Why do young people view the future as a dire place, even as their elders seem oblivious to the triple threat of climate change, resource scarcity, and growing inequality?
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Animated guide to building a Keystone XL
Turns out it's just a long concrete tube buried three to four feet under ground, rambling on for mile after mile, narrated by a guy with an adenoid problem.
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Here’s what the night sky ought to look like (i.e. AMAZING)
Here’s your nature porn for the day: a long exposure of the night sky over the aptly named Very Large Telescope array in Chile. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/36154212]
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Ask Umbra: Where do chemical-sucking plants go to die?
Some plants remove nasty contaminants from the soil. What happens to those leafy overachievers when their time is up? Umbra explores.
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Why we should all be drinking toilet water
If you live downstream from another city, you're probably already drinking treated wastewater -- and engineers want you to drink even more of it.
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Julianne Moore wants clean air for kids
Did you guys know Julianne Moore wrote a children’s book? This is apparently the thing celebrities do when they’re over 25 (under 25, they start a perfume line). It’s about the heartbreak of being a ginger, and not about environmental stuff at all, but that isn’t stopping Moore from plugging it in her video for […]
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Red color in Texas river turns out to be pig blood
Apologies for starting off y’all’s Monday mornings on the grossest note possible, but this story was too appalling not to share. In Texas, near Dallas, an amateur drone pilot snapped a pic of a suspiciously red creek. (Weird, we know! But just get past that bit.) The drone pilot decided it was suspicious enough to […]
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Hidden risk: Mercury pollution’s costs to wildlife and people
A new report details the widespread presence of mercury in nature -- and its effects on birds and bats should make humans worried, too.
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Shocking but true! The director of ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ wants to chat with you!
Chris Paine, director of the documentaries "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and "Revenge of the Electric Car," chatted with Grist readers.
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Old dumps, new tricks: Turning landfills into nature preserves
The Brookfield landfill was a neighborhood menace for decades. Now, it’s becoming a park with woods and wetlands -- something the experts didn’t think could be done.
