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When in drought, Californian salmon take to the road
U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans to help California salmon bypass drought-shriveled streams by trucks. Yikes.
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![Original Plaintiff couples (R-L) Hillary and Julie Goodridge, their daughter Annie, 9, lawyer Mary Bonauto and an unidentified couple react as streamers are set off during a First Year Anniversary Celebration of the legalization of Gay Marriage at Unitarian Universalist Association Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 2005.]()
![Original Plaintiff couples (R-L) Hillary and Julie Goodridge, their daughter Annie, 9, lawyer Mary Bonauto and an unidentified couple react as streamers are set off during a First Year Anniversary Celebration of the legalization of Gay Marriage at Unitarian Universalist Association Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, May 17, 2005.]()
Why green change is hard: Lessons from the front lines of marriage equality
Scholar Tim McCarthy outlines parallels and differences between environmentalism's challenges and the LGBT and marriage-equality movement's successes.
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So long, and thanks for all the tree lobsters
So much has changed in two and a half years! Also, so much has stayed exactly the same! Some thoughts from a departing editor.
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Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for […]
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Attn. babies: Don’t be born poor and black in North Carolina
A new EPA study finds that poor black kids are more likely to arrive in this world underweight and undernourished, on top of being underprivileged.
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Want everyone else to buy into environmentalism? Never say “Earth”
A veteran marketer says green organizations must drop the nature imagery, talk about people, and repeat, repeat, repeat if they want to move the needle on climate.
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Don’t worry: Your rail trail is (probably) safe
A Supreme Court ruling this week was a bit of bad news for rails-to-trails advocates, but it won't actually affect most such trails.
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Talk talk: Political junkies discuss Senate chat on climate
Watch some people (including Grist's Ben Adler) talk about other people (senators) talking about stuff (the state of the climate). So meta!
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Who had the best one-liners at the Senate’s climate slumber party?
Thirty U.S. senators stayed up all night long on Monday to talk about climate change. Did your senators join in the fun?
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Alpha coal executives get $2 million bonuses amid falling stock price and record Clean Water Act fines
Alpha Natural Resources, the third largest US coal company, had a rough few days in the stock market last week. First, it tumbled after news that the company would have […]
