Whether you've been hitting snooze each time a global climate conference rolls around or you're looking for a refresher before the Copenhagen climate talks next month, Grist has an interactive timeline to bring you up to speed.

For years, small-scale poultry farmers have had trouble processing their birds for market. Grist has learned that Whole Foods is looking to solve just that problem. But will the retail giant's effort squeeze the very farmers it's designed to help?

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Thousands of emails from a top climate research center have been hacked and illegally posted on the internet. Global warming skeptics are taking this opportunity (and out-of-context quotes from the alleged emails) to spread the word that

So you're not moved by melting glaciers? Here are a few other reasons to pay attention to climate change, from supermodels to super-hungry rats.

Copenhagen: COP-15 is the most important climate change/global warming conference ev-ah. Grist and Eugene Mirman are there with complete coverage.

The greatest oil ad of all time, from 1962.

Most people don't know it, but the fate of the world is at stake this December. The UN is holding a Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark where the world's leaders will decide whether there ...

The greatest oil ad of all time, from 1962.

There's a chance that, with luck and skill, a climate-saving deal can be reached at the Copenhagen climate talks. And while far from ideal, the hope that a deal is still salvageable is a lot better than the doom that was so widely pronounced at the start of the week.

In Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting, author R. J. Ruppenthal makes sense of this seemingly counter-intuitive idea -- that farming has to be done outside, with a red barn and rolling fields of wheat. ...