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Photo: John Monoogian IIII spent the day yesterday digging through 18 — count ’em, 18 — pages of search results...
McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King just stopped using a product popularly known as "pink slime" in their burger meat....
The author of the refreshingly pragmatic "Before the Lights Go Out" talks about finding common ground with climate deniers, the value of individual action in fixing a broken energy system, and the price of gas.
Grist is beginning a Lexicon of Sustainability weekly series. Check out these artistically altered images from around the sustainable food world.
In the latest installment of our Protein Angst series, food waste expert Jonathan Bloom points to this fact: Roughly 20 percent of all meat produced in the U.S. doesn't get eaten.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, things that seem too good to be true probably are.
One year after it started, the GOP investigation into Solyndra has found ... nothing. And independent analysts have found that the DOE loan guarantee program is on track and under budget. But Republicans aren't letting the facts stop their crusade.
The lead author of a study on sea-level rise talks about its consequences for coastal towns. Even under conservative estimates, they're not pretty.
The prominent “suburban apologist” talks about how much he likes cities and how he loves to ride his bike -- and generally goes all Jane Jacobs on us. Wait, wha?