Staff Picks
Trying to decide what to read on Grist? Let our editors, writers, and reporters point you toward some of our favorite pieces from the past year, from award-winning stories to new Grist classics.
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Nature’s air sensors are growing on your street
How a group of community scientists are using a plant to take control of the air they breathe.
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Fleeing global warming? ‘Climate havens’ aren’t ready for you yet.
Climate migration is already underway. Here's how cities can prepare.
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A freeway ripped the heart out of Black life in Detroit. Now Michigan wants to tear it down.
Highway removal is the easy part. Making reparations is where it gets complicated.
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I might have eaten the meal of the future. It cost $270 and left me hungry.
Daniel Humm is trying to change the taste of luxury at Eleven Madison Park in New York.
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Canada sides with a pipeline, violating Wet’suwet’en laws — and its own
Despite a Supreme Court ruling, Coastal GasLink is on track to be built through unceded land.
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Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out.
France asked 150 ordinary people to make climate policy. They ended up clashing with President Macron.
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A California law gave the people power to cut pollution. Why isn’t it working?
AB 617 has created a long-winded, bureaucratic process but resulted in little regulation — a design flaw that may be intentional.
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In Chicago, cyclists in Black neighborhoods are over-policed and under-protected
A simple solution for transportation equity: bike lanes.
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The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights
"The basin is free-riding off of undeveloped tribal water rights."
