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Climate change brings unpredictable disasters, and unpredictable disasters aren't budgeted for, which puts governments in a bind.
Researchers have found that sea levels will rise for thousands of years to come, at least 1.1 meters by the year 3000 and maybe a lot more. So try and build your ark by then.
Which absolutely should not surprise you.
We asked Grist readers for suggestions for how to rock the holidays without partaking of the shopping madness and materialism. Boy, did you deliver.
Companies like Monsanto and Syngenta want farmers to think of drought-tolerant seeds as an insurance policy against hot, dry weather. But for farmers who don't take care of the soil, these seeds look like a gamble.
Well, that last part isn't true.
The Food and Environmental Reporting Network released a striking report this week (Sept. 18) describing how industrial agriculture and climate change are...
Arachnophobes, beware: A science illustrator adorned the roof of the Seattle Center Armory with monstrously large photorealistic daddy long-legs.
After diagnosing what went wrong on cap-and-trade, political scientist Theda Skocpol suggests one way to proceed. It's not a very good one -- so here's an alternative.