One lab’s nuclear waste is this California start-up’s fuel. | Continue reading
A Norwegian city built “the world’s first bicycle lift intended for urban areas,” and over 15 years, it’s helped 200,000 cyclists up a 426-foot hill. | Continue reading
“When the dead zone comes, it just kills everything.” | Continue reading
Farmers in California’s Central Valley are already reckoning with climate change — and changing their ways. | Continue reading
Detroiters were refusing city-sponsored “free trees.” A researcher found out the problem: She was the first person to ask them if they wanted them. | Continue reading
"We work together to make a fun bee hotel so the bees can fit their fuzzy little buns in.” | Continue reading
A new study pinpoints the problems. | Continue reading
California farmers are going from growing hay to sprouting electrons. | Continue reading
A new report reveals race and income disparities in regards to a program designed to protect growers from Trump’s trade war with China. | Continue reading
Hint: It’s small, adorable, and looks a whole lot like them. | Continue reading
What if fracking technology helps us discover our renewable energy dreams? | Continue reading
Is it worth it to push our forecasting abilities back 40 years, just for faster cell service? | Continue reading
Meet the Infinity Burial Suit. | Continue reading
It’s time to culturally stigmatize the classic over-watered, over-fertilized, over-mowed American lawn. | Continue reading
Inside the push to tear down an Oakland freeway. | Continue reading
Battery technology is ahead of schedule, opening the door for storing renewable energies. Soon, renewables might rival gas and oil in affordabilty. | Continue reading
More than 20 years after winning millions from PG&E, Hinkley, California, is fighting for clean water. | Continue reading
If you want to convince a climate skeptic, now could be a good time. | Continue reading
The migration aligns with what researchers tell us to expect from global warming. | Continue reading
Hint: the problem predates the Trump administration
| Continue readingYeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to. | Continue reading
Your two-day shipping deal is releasing tons of carbon emissions. | Continue reading
Climate scientists live in a world that’s still caught between where we are and where we need to be. | Continue reading
We’ve known for a while that the cost of new nuclear power plants in this country has been soaring. Before 2007, price estimates of $4,000 per kilowatt for new U.S. nukes were common, but by&… | Continue reading
A trio of rapidly expanding wildfires are devastating the Golden State. | Continue reading
Scores of startups are aiming to solve the problems that plague nuclear power. | Continue reading
Hitting the 1.5-degrees C goal would require a radical rethink in almost every aspect of society. But not meeting the goal would upend life as we know it, too. | Continue reading
It’s a crisis as big as the planet. Bezos, Gates, and friends are backing a fix. | Continue reading
Open-source farming could challenge Big Ag and take crop production to new heights. | Continue reading
Behind the scenes of Seattle’s latest foray into bikeshares. | Continue reading
As warming temperatures strengthen hurricanes, Caribbean states plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal. | Continue reading
Surprise! Individual actions do matter. | Continue reading
Life satisfaction plummets in the first years of parenthood, so just say no — for yourself and the planet. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is on track to consume 0.5 percent of the world’s electricity by end of the year. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is on track to consume 0.5 percent of the world’s electricity by end of the year. | Continue reading
Lone star ticks hunt in packs and spread an allergy to beef and pork. Thanks to climate change, they’re spreading. | Continue reading
An especially dismal snowpack this past winter has raised tensions over water rights in the Southwest. | Continue reading
Just got word that Lowe's, Whirlpool, and the U.S. EPA Energy Star program will search this summer for the country's 10 most energy-inefficient families. The lucky winners will receive a home energy makeover "to lower their monthly bills and help save the environment" and a retur … | Continue reading
The First Ever List of Grist Superlatives is now live. Who's the hottest eco-model? The mustachiest geo-green? What's the kinkiest eco-innovation? The most self-defeating anti-Kyoto argument? Check out our picks, then tell us what we botched, missed, or totally nailed. | Continue reading
Still more laudatory press coverage for our Maximum Leader, this time in the form of a story from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), in which Chip participated lo many years ago. It's a great story, but if I can raise the question on everyone's mind: Why must every st … | Continue reading
Climate change may not totally wipe out the human species In what passes for good news on global warming these days, a new study has determined that climate sensitivity — the extent to which climate will react to increased greenhouse-gas levels — is likely within the mid-range of … | Continue reading
Oil issue looms as Chinese prez visits White House Buying oil from unsavory regimes, thus ensuring their grip on power. Attempting to lock up oil supplies to increase geopolitical influence. Growing heedlessly and unsustainably, polluting the air and water. These are the kinds of … | Continue reading
A dispatch from the launch party for Vanity Fair‘s green issue In case you haven’t noticed, we’re pretty dang excited that our own Chip Giller made the glossy green pages of the latest issue of Vanity Fair. And Vanity Fair‘s pretty excited to exclaim to the world that they’re tur … | Continue reading
U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions hit record high This week, the feds quietly — as in, tiptoeing in socks, holding breath — released annual stats on U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, as required by the U.N. climate-change convention. The news is roughly as good as you would expect: The … | Continue reading
Our list of environmental goodies, oddities, and inanities We thought about being earnest this Earth Day — compiling some sort of inspiring list of in-the-trenches eco-heroes who need recognition and encouragement — but then we remembered: we’re Grist. So we bring you instead a c … | Continue reading
With Earth Day fast approaching, we’re pleased to bring you the First Ever List of Grist Superlatives. It’s our modest take on the year past, and a few predictions for things to come. Miffed about what we missed? You’re welcome to make additions in Gristmill. Soaking up the Sunda … | Continue reading
Everything you ever wanted to know about the burgeoning efforts to suck oil out of the Canadian tar sands in an enormous, magisterial story by Marianne Lavelle in U.S. News & World Report. | Continue reading
Wednesday, 19 Apr 2006 New York, N.Y. Why was last night different from all other nights on which people have gathered to party for an environmental crusade? Because it was the launch party for the first green issue of Vanity Fair — a glossy, celebrity-drenched cry to mainstream … | Continue reading