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Meet Amanda Cohen, the raddest vegetarian chef in the U.S.
Chef Amanda Cohen wants to boost women in the kitchen, pay her employees equal wages, and get you to eat your vegetables while she's at it.
Patricia Arquette had a great Oscar speech — and then something went wrong
In a post-ceremony press conference, Arquette said a couple of things that were markedly less clap-worthy.
This map shows where your state’s oysters are in trouble
A new study pinpoints when ocean acidification will become a big problem near you.
Climate-denying scientist got piles of money from fossil fuel interests
Willie Soon, a favorite among climate deniers, describes his research as "deliverables" in correspondence with his dirty funders.
Russian outfit plans to spend $25 million to secretly study GMOs
The world could use more studies of GMO crops and health. But if they're going to make any headway, they'll need to be a lot more open.
Is there such a thing as a green snowblower?
A reader needs help clearing her driveway. Umbra digs deep for an answer.
Balmy or blizzards? U.S. coasts are experiencing opposite winters
The recent bout of winter weather has painted the middle of the country and the East Coast in white, while the West has been downright hot.
Here’s why climate advocates should love Obama’s community college plan
Community colleges are training students for green jobs, creating living laboratories for sustainability, and serving as safe havens during disasters.
Scientists want to turn your old sandwich into an indestructible wonder material
Your food waste could be used to make tougher solar panels, better batteries, sustainable condoms, and more.
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We just had a very hot January
The warmth that led 2014 to become the hottest year on record has continued into 2015.
How Michele Bachmann’s lies inspired Factcheck.org
On the Inquiring Minds podcast, Factcheck's Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses their new initiative to debunk politicians' science lies.
Meet the latest threat to your community: Miniature libraries
Little Free Libraries are threatened by a movement to block their construction.
TransCanada has big new plans for moving oil around, and you won’t like them
The company behind the long-stalled Keystone project wants to build a big new cross-border pipeline and get into the oil-train business.
Auto-flush toilets just don’t know when to quit
Mall toilets can't tell a butt from a "but I'm not finished yet!"
Watch Minnesota’s food scene grow. Danger: This will make you want to become a farmer
The Victory Garden's Edible Feast episode is full of sweet, candid moments, great tips, and delicious food.
Why are we yelling at utilities and not their regulators?
Clean energy advocates often rage against the behavior of power utilities. It's time to look beyond them to the regulators who shape their decisions.
6 reasons why cargo bikes are the next big thing
The cargo bike revolution is coming! We’d better get ready.
Coal-country states declare war on Obama’s climate rules
ALEC is helping local lawmakers fight the Clean Power Plan.
Meet the last 3 millennials who don’t have smartphones
Can three young, tech-savvy writers pull off a tweetstorm on their antiquated clamshell phones? Find out.
Alaskan tribes given tiny amount of cash for climate change resilience
The money will be used for climate adaptation education -- because $8 million won't be nearly enough to protect against climate disasters.
URGENT: MUSCLED TORSOS ACROSS AMERICA IN DANGER
Do you care about the bros in your life? Perhaps you are interested in a protein shake only slightly less ridiculous than the standard ones!
Natural gas drilling is causing earthquakes in Europe too
Shell and ExxonMobil ignored for decades that drilling in Europe’s largest gas field was triggering quakes.
Happy birthday, Papa Climate Change!
Celebrate the birthday of Svante Arrhenius, the guy who first figured out that all this fossil fuel burning might screw us over someday.
Baltimore youth get another big win in fight against incinerator
A Baltimore County committee voted to end its contract with the company planning to build a waste-to-energy facility.
Rand Paul is no moderate on climate change
Don't believe the media hype. Paul is right in line with his party on this one.
Gentrification might be real, but it’s the least of Chicago’s worries
For Chicago's depressed black neighborhoods, yuppie invasions are more manageable than chronic problems of inequality and ineffective policy.
Understanding Obama’s suckiness on climate
The president has been pretty good about reducing demand for dirty energy, and pretty bad about increasing its supply. Why?
Are all K-Cup-style coffeemakers totally terrible?
A reader wonders whether single-serving coffee can be green. Umbra brews up an answer.
All the best science experiments involve dynamite
Equipped with plenty of dynamite and seismometers, these geologists are major badasses.
New Yorkers’ review of New York is actually a poignant portrait of a city
Whether you're Jay-Z or Taylor Swift, the way you experience New York can change entirely from block to block.
Mounties claim anti-oil activists are a threat to Canada
A classified report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warns that the "anti-Canada petroleum movement" contains "militants and violent extremists."
Are shrooms the new pesticide?
Irish scientists have found that a little bit of fungus growing inside barley can protect the plants from pests, disease, and even climate change.
Catholics in 45 countries are fasting for climate action
For Lent, Catholics all over the world are giving up food and carbon-intensive habits to raise awareness for climate change.
Which underwater Boston do you like best?
As rising sea levels begin to threaten to submerge big chunks of the city, Boston holds a contest to spark novel ideas for saving some landmarks.
New York City could be 9 degrees warmer and 39 inches wetter by 2080
And other alarming details from the city's latest climate change report.
Now we can watch the oceans acidify in real time
This is a handy new tool for scientists, and a mesmerizing screensaver for the rest of us.
Who killed the gayborhood? A Grist podcast investigation
Join us as we explore the effects of woo girls and tech money on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Special guests include Dan Savage.
Miami is already sinking under rising sea levels
You don’t have to look 85 years into the future to see what a warming world looks like -- you only need to look as far as Miami.
Britain’s most powerful politicians agree fighting climate change is a jolly good idea
The leaders of the country’s three major parties signed a joint pledge to aggressively fight climate change and phase out the use of coal.
USDA goes FBI on crooks who sell gross meat and run cons on food stamps
Sure, government swindlers and food stamp fraudsters are alarming. But we're catching a lot of them -- and, often, getting the money back.
12 ways you and everyone you know could die
Scientists ranked humanity's worst existential threats, and guess who's at the top of the list? Our old pal, extreme climate change.
What is a ‘sky river,’ and why is Miss Piggy flying in it?
Scientists recently flew through the thick of the wet and wild Pineapple Express on an airplane called Miss Piggy. Top that, Kermie.
Oil trains are blowing up all over the place
Two tanker trains full of crude oil have derailed and burst into flames in the last few days, one in West Virginia and one in Ontario.
Michelle Obama thinks carrots are better than Ariana Grande
Watch Michelle Obama and Big Bird compete on a bizarre game show -- all to get kids to eat more vegetables.
“More research” into geoengineering is not such a hot idea
In the geoengineering debate, "just research" is the default position of Serious People. But it's more problematic than they acknowledge.
8 ways Obama sucks on climate
Think he’s doing all he can? Au contraire. Again and again, the president encourages fossil fuel exploitation and goes soft on polluters.
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