Susie Cagle Momentous change doesn’t always leave visual cues. A 2008 Obama looks much the same as a 2012 Obama (minus a few gray hairs and Benghazi wrinkles). In some ways, climate change is similar; we can’t exactly... 

Susie Cagle Yesterday, we brought you our remarkably unscientific (seriously, it was written by this guy ) list of the 10 cities most likely to get hammered by climate change . Today, we thought we’d give you the bright side, such... 

Shutterstock Monsanto’s Bt corn was supposed to reduce pesticide use. The Environmental Protection Agency said as much when the corn, which is genetically modified to resist the crop-ravaging rootworm, debuted in 2003. Sure enough,... 

Shutterstock Is this corn genetically modified? Connecticut lawmakers think you have the right to know. Does your mouth water at the thought of corn that’s engineered to produce a poison that kills insects? If not, Connecticut... 

Energy Department on YouTube Ernest Moniz addressing an energy-efficiency conference, just hours after being sworn in as energy secretary. The cleanest electricity is no electricity at all — a fact that is not lost on new Energy... 

Susie Cagle Here at Grist, climate change is our bread and melting butter. But this month, we’re feeling especially hot and bothered . As part of our in-depth look at the warming planet, we’ve compiled a list of the U.S. cities... 

Like sparring siblings, China and the United States — the world’s two biggest carbon dioxide emitters — keep passing the climate-action buck back and forth: “Why should I cut emissions if they don’t have to?” Well,... 

The White House Barack Obama’s advocacy group, Organizing for Action, has been calling out Republican climate skeptics in Congress , but climate activists are not impressed. They’re planning to crash OFA events and push the... 

Mike Smail ExxonMobil’s accident-prone complex in Baton Rouge. “Oops.” Gulf Coast oil refiners and chemical processors say that a lot, but regulators are doing precious little to rein in what the industry euphemistically... 

Eric Garcetti Eric Garcetti. Los Angeles got a new mayor this morning: City Councilmember Eric Garcetti beat City Controller Wendy Greuel , a fellow Democrat, more handily than expected in a historically low-turnout race (a pathetic... 

Susie Cagle May hasn’t gone so hot for some of the sharing economy’s  most promising entrepreneurs. 2012 might have hinted of challenges to come , but so far 2013 has overdelivered. In the last two weeks, New York regulators... 

Solar Impulse, the world’s most advanced solar aircraft, is trekking across the United States. It’s already made it from the Bay Area to Phoenix, Ariz. Check out photos from its U.S. flights, and read more about the all-solar... 

Standing beside Solar Impulse — the world’s most advanced solar aircraft — in a hangar at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on a recent afternoon, Bertrand Piccard attempted to diagnose humankind’s biggest... 

thisisbossi Food trucks at Freedom Plaza. Farragut Square is a classic, austere Washington, D.C., park with much landscaping and statuary but few amenities for actual people. It does at least have a lot of benches, which come in handy... 

Shutterstock / val lawless Sen. Inhofe rides in on a white horse, shows his constituents he cares. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) opposed using federal money to help the victims of Superstorm Sandy rebuild their homes, roads, and tattered... 

Let’s be friends! And now our neighbor to the north is focusing its powers of persuasion directly on the American people. The country just launched a taxpayer-funded, multimillion-dollar marketing campaign extolling the virtues... 

This tornado , guys. This tornado . I mean. I just. I can’t. The whole town! The kids! UGH. I am at the point with national tragedies where I just lose my ability to respond in any coherent way. What do we even DO at that point?... 

Public schools increasingly talk a good game about the healthy stuff they’re serving for lunch. But the meals don’t always match the menu, as Zachary Maxwell discovered as a fourth grader. Maxwell sneakily recorded the gross lunches... 

Shutterstock / Henrik Larsson Mosquitoes are bringing malaria to more and more places as the climate changes. It’s not just thinking about climate change that can make you feel sick — climate change itself is bringing... 

Shutterstock / Joshua Haviv Manhattan, one of the places where climate change will kill people. Climate change is expected to boost homicidal heat waves in Manhattan, while cold snaps in the densely packed borough should become slightly...