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is a zero-waste society plausible and profitable, or just a pipe dream? Examples from around the world suggest the former.
A parasitic caterpillar fungus that grows in the Himalayas has many names, according to Scientific American — yarsagumba, yarchagumba, yartsa...
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.
Fires, heat waves, impaired fishing. Same old, same old.
A lengthy report from a commission tasked with analyzing what went wrong at Fukushima issues its response: everything.
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.
The actions of the owner of a pipeline that dumped a million gallons of tar-sands oil into the Kalamazoo River made a bad situation worse.
The EPA doesn't know where most factory farms are, nor what they're polluting -- and yet it just reversed a rule that would have helped clean water regulators find out.
