Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...

Have an old computer lying around the house? Don't just throw it away. Computers house all sorts of toxins that are bad for the environment and all of us who live in it. Not to mention the personal ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 ...