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Grist is looking for the next class of fellows
Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then Grist wants you! We are now accepting applications for the next class of the Grist Fellowship Program.
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How seeds could be our saviors — if we save them first
A new documentary underscores how many different problems seed diversity could solve for us. But first we have to stop casually losing varieties.
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Bill Koch is the latest executive to leave the coal business, saying it “has kind of died”
Another executive has apparently decided to ditch the shrinking US coal mining industry: Bill Koch, who made billions selling petcoke and coal with his company Oxbow Carbon. Energy and Environment […]
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Could Minnesota’s “Value of Solar” Make Everyone a Winner?
On Wednesday, Minnesota became the first state to allow utilities a new method of contracting with distributed solar producers, called the market-based “value of solar.” If adopted by utilities, it […]
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Scientist would study climate change’s effects on turtles, if not for climate change
Will climate change complicate human attempts to adapt to a warmed world -- just as it complicates human attempts to study it?
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What was the point of the Senate’s climate talkathon? Changing the terms of the political debate
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) tells Grist what he hoped to accomplish by getting nearly a third of senators to stay up all night talking about climate change.
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Agencies Dodge Responsibility for Human Cost of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining
This week, we got some disappointing news – a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers isn’t responsible for considering the health effects of coal pollution when it issues […]
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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.
