Articles by Senior Staff Writer Matt Simon
Matt Simon is a senior staff writer at Grist.
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Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US
Every summer, an atmospheric event propels desert dust thousands of miles across the Atlantic. This year is particularly bad, and timed terribly with Covid-19.
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Coronavirus is accelerating the rise of alternative meat
The supply chain for traditional meat is buckling. Plant-based alternatives are filling the void.
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Turns out, traffic spreads like the coronavirus
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon.
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What if the Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t the ocean’s biggest plastic problem?
The Ocean Cleanup project has an idea where all the plastic is going. Some scientists say it's trash.
