A fiber optic cable spied on Greenland’s glaciers. It found an alarming problem
By analyzing light shining through the same kind of cable that brings the internet into homes, researchers have helped explain
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Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault.
Can urban design actually motivate people to walk more? New data says yes...
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A new report shows how local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost...
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The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke...
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The fix for parched western states: Recycled toilet water
If it’s perfectly safe to drink purified wastewater, why aren’t drought-plagued states drinking more of it...
Matt Simon
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Beneath Greenland’s ice lies a climate solution — and a new geopolitical battleground
Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the
Matt Simon
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This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years
Turning plant waste into biochar captures loads of carbon. New research suggests it stays trapped for much longer than scientists
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Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more?
Grist sat down with environmental journalist Marco Visscher to talk about his new book on the rise, fall, and return
Matt Simon
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He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution
The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from
