Grist List
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![A model wearing a mask presents a creation at the QIAODAN Yin Peng Sports Wear Collection show during China Fashion Week in Beijing, October 28, 2014.]()
![A model wearing a mask presents a creation at the QIAODAN Yin Peng Sports Wear Collection show during China Fashion Week in Beijing, October 28, 2014.]()
China’s latest fashion craze: Smog masks
Air pollution in China is a national problem -- but that's not stopping the fashion industry from glammin' up the protective gear!
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![Zombie]()
How to eat local during the zombie apocalypse
Hope you're planning to stock that bunker with some home-canned local goodies!
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![Wasted food]()
Food expiration dates are garbage. Here’s a new label that’ll make you think before you toss.
Bump Mark, a new food label made out of gelatin, could substantially reduce the amount of food sent to landfills each year.
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John Oliver’s takedown of the sugar industry is pretty sweet
The Last Week Tonight host slams Big Sugar just in time for Halloween.
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![Alpine chamois mountain goat]()
![Alpine chamois mountain goat]()
Honey, climate change is shrinking the kids
A new study finds that rising temperatures have downsized mountain goats by 25 percent in just 30 years. Cute, but not good.
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![YOLO]()
![YOLO]()
In Yolo County, YOLO apparently means stealing hives of angry bees
This buzzworthy new trend in food crime is taking hold in California.
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![Oil pouring out of faucet.]()
![Oil pouring out of faucet.]()
Scientists can now see fracker’s “fingerprints” all over polluted water
Scientists think they have a new tool to prove once and for all whether fracking is responsible for contaminating our water.
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![Flying Delorean.]()
![Flying Delorean.]()
New climate time machine is not a DeLorean, but it’s almost as cool
The new software gives researchers a look at storms of the past. It also eliminates the danger of traveling back in time and accidentally kissing your mom.
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![What rising sea levels will do to South Florida.]()
![What rising sea levels will do to South Florida.]()
Will South Florida be the shortest-lived state in the union?
The mayor of South Miami is fed up with Florida's refusal to address sea-level rise, which threatens to wipe out the southern end of the state.
