This story is part of a  Guardian  series   on climate refugees. Read  parts 1 ,  2 ,  3 , and 4 . Travis S. The slow-moving disaster being visited on the village of Newtok is a familiar one in Alaska. People are losing the... 

This story is part of a Guardian series on climate refugees. Read parts 1 , 2 , and 3 . DCRA / Alaska Department of Commerce Once the snow melts, people make their way around Newtok on wooden boardwalks set down on the mud. But the... 

In this video for the Nature Conservancy, rapper Macklemore explains how municipal green space in his home city of Seattle influenced his career: He and his friends didn’t want to kick it at their parents’ houses, so they... 

Rian S. Clothing retailers don’t have it easy. It’s very hard to keep up with what’s in style. And what’s in style now? Fracking! Which means flame-retardant clothing for when shit gets out of hand. Last year... 

Matt Erasmus While most of Washington, D.C., is consumed with the faux scandals du jour , in a few corners of Congress, actual work is getting done. A day 329 days late and a dollar $20 billion short, perhaps, the farm bill, an every-five-years... 

Shutterstock Oops, it’s melting. Sorry ’bout that. “Hello, world? Hey, John Kerry here. Just wanted to apologize for all those decades of America’s non-leadership on that crazy global warming thing. But now... 

Back in 2012, 561,633 very nice people went out on beaches  around the world and picked up the trash that other people had thrown there. They picked up an astounding 10 million pounds. That’s the weight of 5,000 cars. It’s... 

Shutterstock One of the great features of California’s cap-and-trade program is that all the money that the state raises by selling carbon allowances to polluters is supposed to be plowed back into initiatives that help cool... 

Shutterstock The Earth revolves around the sun. Also, it’s overheating because we’re burning fossil fuels. Can you guess which of those two long-established facts just received an additional jolt of publicized near unanimity... 

Shutterstock Let it burn, says the Tea Party. Tea Partiers who watched gleefully as the sequester slashed government spending are welcome to douse forest fires near their homes with teapots full of Earl Grey this summer. Across-the-board... 

Shutterstock Go crazy, dude. Salt’s membership in junk food’s holy trinity (along with sugar and fat) means it’s one of the food industry’s essential tools for making its products addictively good. (Journalist Michael Moss... 

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Shutterstock / Glynnis Jones Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath. Schools and roads are nice to have. But what American taxpayers are really dropping serious money on, through no direct choice of their own, is cleaning up and helping... 

Shutterstock The conflict between electric utilities and distributed energy — mainly rooftop solar panels — is heating up. It’s heating up so much that people are writing about electric utility regulation, the most... 

Here is what South Dakota looks like in the winter: USFWS And here is what it looks like in the summer: And over the weekend, the state basically switched from one to the other overnight. One day, the temperature was 22 degrees F.... 

Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (2011) Newtok. Sabrina Warner keeps having the same nightmare: a huge wave rearing up out of the water and crashing over her home, forcing her to swim for her life with her toddler son. “I... 

Dave Lauridsen Mark Tercek leads the largest conservation group in the galaxy. As president and CEO of the Nature Conservancy, he oversees a staff of 4,000 people spread around the planet, an annual budget exceeding a half a billion... 

Shutterstock I refuse to conform to your car culture. At Grist, we’ve been onto the trend of the youngs losing interest in driving for awhile now. And every time a new study or survey comes out to statistically corroborate the anecdotal... 

It’s not enough to feel the occasional pressure to work out. You should feel it all the time. How would you like it if every single room in your house was an exercise station? You think that would suck? Well, maybe it would... 

ap. We are fans of Northwest Edible Life’s Erica Strauss. Perhaps you remember her rant about healthy eating. It is the best ever . And now she has something to tell you about backyard chickens: You absolutely should not get...