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View of Southwest Washington, D.C., including the spaghetti maze of I-395 and its ramps, as seen from my office, 4:12PM November 12, 2016. The view down the Potomac River has been nearly eliminated as a result of the massive development project along...

By Rick Manning Blame it on the earth, it just refuses to cooperate. Poor global cooling skeptics are stuck in a pattern of backfilling and desperate explanations as to why their bold predictions of earth’s overheated doom not only haven&rsquo...

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Alex Steffen's new book, Carbon Zero. The rest of the book is available as chapters on Grist and in ebook form on Amazon. You can learn more about Steffen at his website AlexSteffen.com or follow him...

by ROY SCRANTON, The New York Times, November 10, 2013 Jeff DelViscio Driving into Iraq just after the 2003 invasion felt like driving into the future. We convoyed all day, all night, past Army checkpoints and burned-out tanks, till in the blue...

LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard- If it weren't for the red flags marking the tundra trail to the glacier, some of us -- passengers on the Hurtigruten cruise ship MS Fram, sailing out of Longyearbyen, on Spitsbergen -- might have been tempted to strike out alone...