Articles by Senior Staff Writer Matt Simon
Matt Simon is a senior staff writer at Grist.
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Turns out, traffic spreads like the coronavirus
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.
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What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?
The Ocean Cleanup project has an idea where all the plastic is going. Some scientists say it's trash.
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Researchers mapped L.A.’s emissions with incredible detail. Is your city next?
A new project shows the emissions from every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area.
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Wait, melting glaciers are helping capture carbon?
If you were looking for a way out of our impending climate doom, however, this ain’t it.
