Grist List
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Meet the mailman who mapped Rio’s slums before Google could
An ex-bodysurfing champ and former census worker is leading a volunteer effort to give slum residents mailing addresses.
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Frackers are dumping toxic waste into California’s groundwater
Billions of gallons of contaminated wastewater are threatening the state's shrinking water supply.
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If America cared about the planet as much as the NFL, this is what it would look like
What if people showed the same passion toward environmentalism as they did sports? That's the premise of this hilarious new video.
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California officials care about saving water, except when it comes to their begonias
California’s top water bigwigs are good at bending their own rules.
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Emma Thompson just won our hearts with some straight talk on climate change
Ms. Thompson just came back from a trip to the melting Arctic, and she has some stern words to say about it.
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Your coffee is about to get a lot more expensive
Suffering Brazilian farmers. The longest coffee slump in five decades. Skyrocketing retail coffee prices. Kind of horrifying, isn't it?
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Watch the U.S. face off against China on this carbon emissions map
China is the world's leading carbon polluter today, but the U.S. held the title for decades.
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Twin Peaks’ real environmentalist hero(ine)
Here at Grist HQ, we are elated to hear that Twin Peaks shall be making a return to television in 2016.
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This Amish paradise goes beyond organic farming
Leave it to the Amish to modernize farming without harmful agri-chemicals.
