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Big Oil’s business model is broken
Here's the real story behind the oil price collapse.
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Big news: CO2 emissions flatlined last year
And it happened during a time of economic growth. You can thank renewables.
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Wind could power a third of America’s electricity by 2050
The wind industry would support 600,000 jobs by then, too.
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Should you care about how much water it takes to make your favorite foods?
Grist’s science editor Amelia Urry appeared on MSNBC’s Greenhouse to talk about how our water usage has more to do with food than what comes out of our faucets.
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R2D2 is in your barn, milking your cows
Robots to milk and tend dairy cows could reduce the total number of farmers, but give the remaining ones more time to think (and sleep).
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This rusty steelworks is about to become a kaleworks
A Newark factory will become a gigantic indoor farm in the latest large-scale effort to test the concept of vertical agriculture.
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All oil is bad, but some is worse. Here’s the difference.
There’s at least an 80 percent difference in CO2 emissions between the dirtiest tar-sands oil and the least-dirty non-tar-sands variety.
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We’re finding out what’s in fracking wastewater, and it ain’t pretty
Thanks to a disclosure law in California, we now know that frackers are polluting water with petroleum chemicals, heavy metals, radioactive elements, and carcinogens.
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Geoengineering won’t help people who are stuck with dirty air
Re-engineering the climate might slow warming, but it does nothing for communities on the ground, says Simon Nicholson of American University.
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This amazing interactive map is actually saving trees
This is how you use the creepy power of the internet to do some real good.