We hand-package the week’s best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning.
Δ
A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
I know some are still reeling from the recent Obama administration announcement on biofuels and its implication that it remains...
PARIS — Drought is killing off trees in Brazil’s fragile Amazon rain forest and depleting the region’s carbon reservoirs —...
Should what we put down our sewers ultimately wind up back on our plates?Marc Samsom via Flickr Urine, feces, menstrual...
As David noted yesterday, the figures Republicans are using to malign the cap-and-trade plan that Democrats put out this week...
GMOs: false promise?km6xoTom Philpott’s post on USDA chief Tom Vilsack’s comments regarding biotech deserves a bit more attention. Vilsack was...
CHICAGO — Global warming could delay the start of the summer monsoon by five to 15 days within the next...
As regular readers know, we’ve done a bit of cheerleading for the “cap and dividend” concept, which is also called...
In more depressing bird news, researchers at my alma mater estimate that up to 30 percent of all land-dwelling bird species could be extinct by 2100 as a result of global climate change. The study, published this week in the journal Conservation Biology ($ub. req'd), modeled bird population responses to changes in vegetation for over 8,000 species and 60 scenarios, and is one of the first analyses of extinction rates to incorporate information from the recent IPCC reports. I think I'm going to go cry now.
Here come the reactions …Grist’s Kate Sheppard has a great story on today’s big news, the EPA decision that greenhouse...
