Nathanael Johnson
Good news! Creeks are safer for swimming
Bad news: Creeks aren't safer for swimming if you are a bug
Want to feed people? Come hang out
On Thursday, Sept. 11, Grist's food writer will be hosting a discussion about providing food to people who need it and supporting local farms.
Why food prices scaled the peaks — and why it matters
You may not have felt a thing, but when food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, they sent experts into a tizzy of debate over why it happened and what we can learn.
Nutrition, the environment, and poverty: Let’s talk!
Double Up Food Bucks is one idea that's working to get better food onto the plates of the people who most need it. Come talk with us and the people behind it.
Perdue just says no to chicken on drugs
One big poultry producer ditches most use of antibiotics. Now it's time for the rest of the industry to follow -- and for doctors to stop overprescribing them to us.
Why we really should care about boosting farm yields
Getting farms to produce more food may not be the answer to all the world's problems. But it's a problem we're still going to need to answer somehow.
Booze is proof nature wants us to be happy
Cultivation, fermentation, distillation: A glass of brandy is made possible by millennia of conspiracy between nature and technology, orchestrated by human beings.
Invasion of the corn snatchers
In Connecticut, thieves are coming in the dead of night for the stalks of small farmers.
Kauai’s on-again, off-again GMO regulations are off again
A judge throws out the Hawaiian island's attempt to restrict the use of pesticides on GMO crops -- but the fight is likely to continue.
