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Diminishing corn supplies could drive fuel prices up, power plants could heat up important bodies of water, and dry weather could force homes and farms to compete for water. Here's what you can do to ease the pressure.
A parasitic caterpillar fungus that grows in the Himalayas has many names, according to Scientific American — yarsagumba, yarchagumba, yartsa...
is a zero-waste society plausible and profitable, or just a pipe dream? Examples from around the world suggest the former.
A lengthy report from a commission tasked with analyzing what went wrong at Fukushima issues its response: everything.
In "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck dubbed Route 66 “The Mother Road.” Now this long-abandoned cross-country byway gets a second life as an epic bike touring highway.
Today at Grist we celebrate the end of our transition from our co-located infrastructure to the cloud.
A new report from ProPublica estimates the extent to which wastewater wells are leaking across the country – often due to operator error.
The film's magic is its ability to make us realize that we're all human. But let's not forget, when the economy collapsed, some were more culpable than others.
Climate chaos has kicked into high gear this summer. That means new opportunities for activists.
