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Americans now spend just under 9 percent of our income on food, about 30 percent less than we did in 1982. But is this a good thing?
After putting off soil testing for two years, will our fearless urban farmer find her backyard garden full of arsenic and lead?
Family planning and sexual health must be part of the conversation at the Rio Earth Summit if we want to build a more just and sustainable world.
In the face of crippling drought across the Corn Belt, Congress is considering funding a disaster aid package with cuts to climate friendly conservation programs.
Grist's green-living pioneer, the Greenie Pig, picked a foraging theme for a small dinner party with friends. Here's what she cooked up.
What happens when small batch brewers discover the farm-to-table movement and run with it?
It’s hard to imagine a teensy mosquito taking down an animal as mighty as the killer whale. Yet that’s exactly...
A new study finds that in the city that birthed The Wire, trees provide shelter from crime.
Reading the piece below by Julia Olson made me cry. One of the big memories of my childhood is a...
