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Sep 10, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Tik Root

    What the record-high cost of diesel means for you (opens the original)

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    Diesel prices hit an all-time high on Friday. Then another, and another. According to AAA, the average price of diesel as of September 10 stands at a staggering $5.98 — about $2.31 more than in late February, when the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran. The jump has been even higher in some states, such as California, where a gallon of diesel currently costs $7.91. Most Americans don’t buy diesel fuel, but they pay for it. It powers the trucks and ships that move everything fro

  2. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Tik Root/Grist

    The market for used EVs ‘is so hot’ right now (opens the original)

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    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Sales of used electric vehicles continued their surge in July, jumping 7.7 percent from June and 10.1 percent compared to last year, according to data Cox Automotive released today. New EVs, in contrast, saw only modest 3.2 percent month-over-month growth and were down 41.5 percent from 2025. “The used market is so hot,” Scott Case, CEO of Recurrent, a company that provides data about EVs, told Grist. Deale

  3. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Tik Root/Grist

    Killing trees to save the forest (opens the original)

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    This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This story was produced by Grist and co-published with VT Digger.​ After more than a decade of nurturing, it had come time to infect this 28-acre grove of American elms with a disease that would almost certainly kill them. Dressed in hunter-green muck boots, grey pants, and a brown Nature Conservancy T-shirt, Gus Goodwin knelt down to give the first tree its shot. Using a bamboo stake marked at 12 inches as

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Tik Root

    Your gas car works fine. Consider an EV anyway, scientists say. (opens the original)

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    A few years ago, environmental scientist Elliot Campbell went around asking people why they would, or would not, switch to an electric vehicle. A surprising number of them asked him a question in return: Because building an EV generates emissions, isn’t it better for the planet just to keep my gas car running for as long as possible? Campbell, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, didn’t know the answer, so he set out to find it. Turns out the old adage that the greenest car i

  5. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · Tik Root, Frida Garza

    Why rice crops could be in for a weird year (opens the original)

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    More than half the world’s population depends on rice to survive. But this year’s El Niño weather pattern and the ongoing climate crisis are intensifying dry, hot weather that could cause yields to plummet. Globally, rice production is set to fall for the first time in more than a decade, according to projections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the U.S., where most rice is grown in the Mississippi Delta, production for the upcoming season is expected to fall by more than half, to the l

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