By Sarah Goodyear These furry beasts are sooooo cute -- until they break into the house, tear up the garden, or turn up dead in the silverware drawer. Some say city life is making them smarter. T...
by Jeff Biggers 02-21-2012 - As millions of pounds of explosives from mountaintop removal strip mining operations continue to devastate historic mountain communities in central Appalachia, a power...
By Christopher Mims Unless the world economy crashes or intercessory prayer starts working, no one on the planet has the power to significantly lower the price of gasoline at the pump.
By David Roberts Rep. Cliff Stearns says successful companies should get government subsidies -- unless those successful companies are involved in clean energy.
By Jess Zimmerman At a campaign event in Georgia, Newt Gingrich told supporters that he would maaaaaagically lower gas prices because “you can’t put a gun rack on a Volt.” Shows...
By Christopher Mims Urban Roots is a documentary about farming within the city limits of Detroit, and as such, it’s a handy way to get an education on the subject in something like 90 minutes.
By Christopher Mims "Grid parity" has arrived in parts of sunny California and Hawaii, and it's coming to (not-so-sunny) Germany by 2013.
By Greg Hanscom When someone posted private emails from climate scientists, the Heartland Institute gleefully piled on. But when the institute's own internal documents leaked, it cried foul.
Note: This article frames biomass energy as ‘renewable’. It’s not. — GJEP Operator of Britain’s largest coal-fired power station blames lack of financial help from govern...
By Jess Zimmerman Sometimes it’s nice to stop worrying about the fate of the planet and just appreciate it for its beauty — and it doesn’t hurt if its beauty is slightly enhance...
By Jess Zimmerman Weird things available on Amazon.com in the U.S. include wolf urine, fresh rabbit, canned unicorn, deer butt, and (fake) horse heads. But until yesterday, the company’s J...
By Jess Zimmerman This combination bike and scooter is nominally the work of fancypants designer Philippe Starck, but that’s partly because “everyone in Bordeaux, France” doesn&...
By Sarah Laskow Sometime later this year, a yet-to-be-named guinea pig very lucky culinary pioneer will take the first bite of the first hamburger grown in a lab. At that point, the cost of makin...
By Sarah Laskow Via the Dish, this art installation in downtown San Francisco is the ultimate tiny house. It’s seven by eight by 11 feet, and it’s suspended 40 feet in the air. Plus,...
By Sarah Laskow A New York state court upheld the town of Dryden’s ban on fracking. Republicans are trying to pin rising gas prices on President Obama. Apple could allow independent environ...
When a herd of prehistoric elephants walked through mud in the Arabian Desert about 7 million years ago, its members unwittingly left their footprints—and clues about their social lives—behind. Th...
By Jenny An GMO labeling advocates have tried a variety of tactics this year; get the run-down on what hasn't worked so far and what just might.
A new study links smoke from the burning of wood waste from deforestation to deaths from the effects of breathing all that smoke. Worldwide, smoke from...
By David Roberts Here's a new framework for understanding how human quality of life and ecological boundaries can fit. Happily, it’s shaped like a doughnut.
By Twilight Greenaway To mark the publication of "On the Future of Food," a new book based on a Prince Charles' speech about the food system, we hear from Marion Nestle, Fred Kirschenmann, and La...
It’s ‘Paraben Amnesty Week’ at Neal’s Yard Remedies, so if you haven’t already made the switch to natural skincare, now is a good time to start...
If Santorum gets to bear the standard for the GOP, the party moves even further to the right. Here's a taste of what's on that plate.
By Mike Ludwig, Cross Posted from Truthout The White House is withholding documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by an environmental group that suspects the Obama administrati...
By Laura Schlabach Just before the next GOP showdown in Arizona, we asked Grist readers to help us come up with presidential debate questions that don't suck. You delivered in spades.
by Ted Glick, cross-posted from EcoWatch “This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy. . . that develops every available source of American energy. . . We have a supply of natural gas...
In this sewer of unethical and immoral activity, we all have tough choices, most especially climate scientists, the victims of many of the worst attacks.
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2.6 million to 12,000 years ago that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciation. Not much has survived from that era except as fossils until now. Fruit...
By Jess Zimmerman Man, I can barely raise a plant from a seedling without killing it, and scientists have managed to grow viable plants out of seeds from 29,000 B.C.? So unfair. Russian scientist...
By Christopher Mims Here is a video of Rick Santorum lying about the history of clean air in America and specifically Pittsburgh.
Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel that, new studies are showing, is probably worse than coal when it comes to its heating-up impact on our atmosphere.
By Jess Zimmerman DRUNK PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS! We know you need that plastic flotsam in order to see some boobs, because of I guess longstanding tradition dating back to before you could see boob...
Yesterday, February 20, the Earth First! 2012 Organizers Conference & Winter Rendezvous culminated in a rowdy demonstration outside the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA)...
Yesterday, February 20, the Earth First! 2012 Organizers Conference & Winter Rendezvous culminated in a rowdy demonstration outside the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA)...
Comments Needed This Week! Toxic Herbicide 2,4-D Linked to Cancer, Lower Sperm Counts, and Parkinson’s Disease 2,4-D Drift Causes More Crop Injury than any Other Herbicide, Threatening American Far...
Pacific coastal communities prepare for possible impacts of marine debris from Japan's triple disaster.
Cross-Posted from Common Dreams, Monday, February 20, 2012 - Common Dreams staff UN-Sponsored Papers Predict Sustained Ecological and Social Meltdown “The current system is broken,” says...
By David Roberts In a budget hearing, GOP lawmakers mocked the Navy for its commitment to conserve energy, and instead suggested it spend more time advocating for military bloat.
By Christopher Mims This is the smallest studio apartment you can build in California, by law -- 160 square feet -- and it includes a bevy of space-saving measures.
By Twilight Greenaway Bon Appétit Management Company makes an industry-changing move toward more humane meat sourcing.
A new agreement makes nearly 1.5 million acres of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf more accessible for exploration and production activities.
By Christopher Mims This is what long-term desertification looks like: The state of Texas lost 5.6 million urban trees -- and as many as 500 million forest trees -- in the drought that’s been g...
By Sarah Laskow Todd Tanner will give you his gun when you pry it from his cold, convinced-of-the-nonexistence-of-climate-change hands. Tanner, the chairman of the new group Conservation Hawks &#...
by Will Potter for GreenIsTheNewRed.com Animal rights activist David Agranoff agreed to become a government informant as part of a plea agreement related to Earth Liberation Front crimes in Bloomingto...
by Will Potter for GreenIsTheNewRed.com Animal rights activist David Agranoff agreed to become a government informant as part of a plea agreement related to Earth Liberation Front crimes in Bloomingto...
Few industries have got the black eye, literally and metaphorically, of mining. After centuries of environmental effects ranging from toxic emissions to unsightly tailings ponds, acid mine drainage, m...
By Christopher Mims Mexico City will open a landfill gas power plant, which should be able to power 35,000 homes at its peak.
The Nouabale-Ndoki National Park is a lush rainforest park within the equatorial nation of the Republic of Congo (ROC), not to be confused with the much larger Democratic Republic of Congo to the sout...
By Sarah Laskow Gleick came forward to say that it was he who had first obtained the documents revealing the inner workings of the climate-denying Heartland Institute. Was he Goofus or Gallant? H...
By Jess Zimmerman Rick Santorum said this weekend that President Obama believed in a "phony theology," sparking concerns that he was publicly denying that the president is a Christian. He later c...
If the roll call of scary ingredients has put you off conventional creams then antioxidants could be the alternative you’re looking for. Matilda Lee explains why...
Peter Gleick, a water expert and climate scientist, says he obtained documents that revealed the inner workings of the Heartland Institute by soliciting them from the group under someone else’s...
As far as clean energy and green jobs go, President Obama's 2013 budget includes a Christmas-in-July package of initiatives that are designed to help pull the U.S. out of recession while transitionin...
Sharks have a reputation for being ruthless, solitary predators, but evidence is mounting that certain species enjoy complex social lives that include longstanding relationships and teamwork. A new st...
Photosynthesis is the process whereby biological systems convert sunlight into food and the source of all the fossil fuels we burn today. In a way it is the ultimate source of all energy supplies tha...
By Ariana Reguzzoni Suburban farmers might just have the best of both worlds: A captive audience hungry for hyper local produce and the space to grow more food than their city counterparts.
An international information system designed to improve and expand the exchange of data on weather, climate and water will help boost food security around the world, according to the World Meteorologi...
By Lisa Hymas Checking out poll numbers on how many Americans are abstaining from meat, and how often omnivores are eating it.
Paris is famous for its chic spin on glamour but also for its fur, its waste and its excess. But with green designers slowly making inroads, things could be about to change, says Lida Hujić...
As London Fashion week draws to a close, don’t miss the chance to see the work of a talented band of up-and-coming young designers who are helping to make upcycling this season’s hottest new trend...
By Greg Hanscom One inconvenient truth gets lost in all the hullabaloo over Congress’ disastrous transportation bill: We can’t kick our addiction to asphalt.