Grist List
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Done shivering? Now try the rice bucket challenge
Now that everyone and their grandma has done the ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge, India takes it up a notch.
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These students bet you can’t steal their bike
College students design a bike they say is unstealable.
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Grow your own California mountain. Just add drought
Turns out extreme drought can move mountains, too.
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Are you there, God? It’s me, climate scientist
Scientists use handwritten letters to share their sad, sad feelings about climate change.
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Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
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You might think bikeshares cut down on CO2, but the truth is complicated
More than 23 million rides have been taken on bikeshares, though research is still unclear on how much they help the planet.
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See-through solar cells could turn your windows into power stations
Even Harry Potter would be impressed.
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People are mistaking strangers’ cars for Ubers
Don't turn around too fast, but we think Uber put a drunk person in your backseat.
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Magical algae turns sewage into biofuel and Dasani
By Dasani, we mean potable tap water. And by sewage, we mean sewage.
