by Grist. Bill McKibben published a must-read op-ed in The Washington Post last month about the connection between climate change and recent extreme weather events. Now Stephen Thomson has combined McKibben’s words with striking footage of t...

by Brad Johnson. Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. “Flooding along the Mississippi River has set a new water level record,” according to the National Weather Service. “The massive flood churning its way down the Mississippi...

by David Roberts. I have a feature story in the latest issue of Popular Science: “Hundreds of Miles of Wind Farms, Networked Under the Sea.” It’s about the Atlantic Wind Connection, a new project (funded, in part, by Google) that...

by Center for American Progress. As the old adage goes, April showers bring May flowers. But for those looking to green their homes, April showers also provide an easy way to reduce water bills and water waste. Rainwater harvesting is a simple...

by Todd Woody. They like to do things big in Texas, so it’s no surprise that the Lone Star state will launch the world’s largest wind battery storage project. Duke Energy is not a Texas company, but it owns the aptly named Notrees wi...

by Michael A. Livermore. In a recent House Energy and Commerce Committee climate hearing, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) jokingly asked if some of his fellow colleagues were going to overturn the law of gravity, “sending us floating about the room...

by Daniel Klein. Spring doesn’t seem like it would be maple syrup time (based on the pictures on Vermont syrup bottles), but so it is. At the cusp of freezing and melting snow is when the sap is running. And while the rest of the country is ...

by Christopher Mims. Germany is the world leader in installed solar photovoltaic panels—and they also just shut down seven of their oldest nuclear reactors. Coincidence? Maaaaybe… Anyway, it’s worth noting that just today, total ...

by Jess Zimmerman. If we had any evidence that Republican House members were capable of feeling shame, we’d expect them to be so red right now. Mother Jones reports that one of the items on the GOP’s budgetary chopping block is ... ...

by Frank Ackerman. Where and how will climate change first affect large numbers of American voters? Answering that question may be crucial to the global efforts to protect the Earth’s climate. The tsunami of stupidity and science denial th...

by Todd Woody. First Chicago gets Rahm Emanuel, now electric cars. Well, at least an electric car infrastructure. In a move that indicates electric cars won’t just be a phenomenon of Greater Portlandia, utility Exelon and the city will rol...

by Steph Larsen. Sparkling snow blankets a dormant pasture, and a red barn stands out starkly against a sea of white. Winter is a beautiful season on the prairie. Everything looks quiet and peaceful, but there’s still a lot of activity at ...

by Dave Hawkins. Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Barry Goldwater famously said, “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” Maybe so, but extremism in the defense of fantasy is a tougher sell. Still, th...

by Eban Goodstein. Arctic sea ice extent averaged over Januray 2011 its lowest recorded levels since satellite records began in 1979. It was 19,300 square miles below the record low of 5.25 million square miles, set in 2006, and 490,000 square...

by Robert Stavins. California Gov. Jerry Brown plans to move forward with the implementation of Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), the Global Warming Solutions Act, under which California seeks to take dramatic steps to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions....

by Mark Hertsgaard. This post is adapted from Hertsgaard’s new book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. If you’re a Seattleite, come meet Hertsgaard at a Grist Happy Hour and see him talk about the book at Town Hal...

by Holly Richmond. TreeShagger is now the official name of our green dating column, as it trounced Treefucker in last week’s poll. Thanks to everyone who voted! If you’ve got green dating questions, send ‘em our way. You know ...