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Humans really are unprecedented in Earth’s geological history — and that’s a bad thing
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Should we really be spending limited science funding on social science and climate change art, when we haven't figured out all the hard stuff yet?
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Americans spent $18.8 million in food stamps at farmers markets last year
At farmers markets, accepting SNAP benefits is a win for low-income shoppers – and farmers, too.
It’s a historic day for gay marriage! Let’s argue about it
A rainbow of perspectives from the Grist staff on the Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
Oslo builds its bees a highway of flowers
We've crowded nature out of much of our cities -- but we can always invite it back in.
There’s no “new Brooklyn” because Brooklyn isn’t even the new Brooklyn
Grist's Ben Adler and MSNBC's Tony Dokoupil talk about Adler's essay on how gentrifying cities can avoid the mistakes Brooklyn has made.
Does air pollution cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?
Scientists now suspect that a major cause of dementia could be the air we breathe.
Check out this amazing new tool for judging California’s water use
As the state's drought grinds into a bone-dry summer, California is adjusting its rules. Now people have to make the new rules work.
Tip for getting people to use the metro system: Block all the roads
Parisian cabbies are allegedly protesting Uber by blocking roads, but we know what they're REALLY doing.
Time to go vegetarian: Smugglers caught with 40-year-old meat
China's latest disgusting food scandal gives a whole new meaning to the term "dry-aged beef."
Farmed fish are breaking out of their pens at an alarming rate
Fish escaping from aquaculture pens is a really big problem, with a really great name: Fishbreaks!
Here’s what climate hawk Martin O’Malley would do as president
The former Maryland governor is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination on an audaciously ambitious environmental platform.
These lovely, innocent wildflowers are slowly dying. Thanks, climate change!
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5 reasons the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling matters for the environment
Maybe government can actually act, sometimes. And maybe common sense could become a driving force in our national decision-making.
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