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Now back to work after a sabbatical, Grist blogger David Roberts reflects on digital overload, work-life balance, and other good stuff.
You'd think insurance firms have a strong financial incentive to get ahead of climate change-induced trouble. Think again, says a new report.
After calls for voluntary conservation didn't work, the drought-stricken state is cracking down on profligate water use.
A new documentary about veterans turned farmers finds that working the soil can be an antidote to the hardships of re-entry.
Organic farmer Paul Hain wants to ban fracking in San Benito County, Calif. A local ballot initiative may help him get his wish.
New research shows that a vegetarian diet is good for you and the climate, both. Just please, go easy on the lentils.
The disaster highlights the cost of careless urban planning and environmental mismanagement.
The scientists behind the controversial study that linked GMO-fueled herbicides with sickness in lab rats have also now published some of their data.
These four artists bedazzle an especially ugly ocean problem: thousands and thousands of square miles of discarded floating plastic.