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Greener Snowmaking Helps Ski Resorts Weather Climate Change

As a warming world creates an existential threat for the ski industry, resorts are reducing how much energy they need to make it snow.

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Why Some Experts Say COPs Need Fixing

Critics say that the annual COP events, while a critical centerpiece for international climate action, are due for an overhaul.

By Tik Root / Grist

The Safest Sunscreens to Buy—and Which Ingredients to Avoid

Chemical and physical sunscreens both come with pros and cons.

By Tik Root

The Unsettled—and Unsettling—Science of Lawn Chemicals

Here’s what experts say people should do to keep their grass, and themselves, healthy

By Tik Root

Inside America’s Murky Private-Adoption Industry

This story was reported and published in partnership with Newsy. Shyanne Klupp was 20 years old and homeless when she met her boyfriend in 2009. Within weeks, the two had married, and within months, she...

By Tik Root

Three Days in a Detroit Funeral Home Ravaged by COVID-19

On April 29, Stephen Kemp arrived at his office just outside Detroit to a perplexing silence. Since COVID-19 hit the city, the phones at his funeral home had been ringing nonstop. Now, nothing.Kemp’s wife and...

By Tik Root

Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of Climate Change

As Matt Kirwan walks through Maryland’s Blackwater National Refuge, his rubber boots begin to squish. With each step the land beneath him turns from dry ground to increasingly soggy mud. The trees around him go...

By Tik Root

Inside the Race to Build the World's First Commercial Octopus Farm

For decades, my father taught biology at Middlebury College in Vermont. One of his signature courses focused on invertebrates and, as a kid, I’d often tag along on class field trips to the Maine coast....

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