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Sure, sending trash far away burns more carbon than recycling it locally. But recycling it far away still beats trashing it. Umbra sorts the tradeoffs.
An open-source project in California is putting cheap air-quality test stations on school roofs and other locations.
Who's to blame for last year's devastating fires in Indonesia -- big corporations? Small farmers? Or an endangered feudal system?
A new poll suggests that school lunches are actually getting less terrible.
Grist shares its favorite climate data visualizations. Buckle up, data wranglers!
New research finds that seas have risen by an average of three inches over the past two decades, and they're only going up.
One company analyzed enviro-minded Google searches by state and called out the superstars. Nice work, Cali.
A new study in Nature Climate Change suggests that news reports on natural disasters can actually reduce risk perceptions.
Houston is home to the nation's largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored.
