Grist List
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Florida judge rules it’s illegal to unhook from the city’s water system
A Florida official decided Robin Speronis was doing something too strange to tolerate: She was trying to live off the grid.
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Watch the Arctic’s oldest ice melt away
The Arctic's "old ice" -- ice that had been around for at least four years -- used to make up about a quarter of all the ice in the Arctic sea.
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Vanilla Ice became an Amish farmer when no one was paying attention
Vanilla Ice helped raise a barn and birth a baby calf, Baby Ice. If that's not the cutest thing ever, well ...
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Extreme weather means we have traffic-related musical numbers now
Watch a Cincinnati traffic reporter warn drivers to stay off the icy roads, to the tune of "Let It Go" from "Frozen."
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This glowing sea shrimp is so bright you might think you’re hallucinating
When the light hits a sea sapphire just right, it shines like a little reflective piece of cellophane before vanishing.
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Buy this gizmo, and you’ll only ever need one candle for the rest of your life
You can capture the dripping wax and turn it into another candle.
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This new IKEA bookshelf system could save forests of trees
IKEA is making a very, very similar shelf that uses slightly less wood.
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Farmers fed their hogs ground up piglet intestines … but, um, for a good cause?
Well, this is horrifying.
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The week in GIFs: Cat edition
Who better than cats to sum up the week's green news?
