Articles by Amelia Urry
Amelia Urry is Grist's associate editor of science and technology, and self-appointed poet-in-residence. Follow her on Twitter.
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This weird plant might be the future of Alaskan agriculture
Rhodiola rosae is a frost-tolerant succulent that just might be the biggest commercial crop the Last Frontier has ever seen.
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Drought ended the Maya empire. Is California next?
If you thought America's drought problems are bad now, wait 'til you see what it can do to an entire civilization.
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These satellites are keeping an eye on California’s underground water
To the list of benefits satellites offer us, we can now add "monitoring our disappearing water."
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We just hit 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, for a whole month
We should be trying to get down to 350 ppm, if we want to avoid the worst of climate chaos, but instead the CO2 concentration keeps rising.
