Pocket gardens: The tiny urban oases with surprisingly big benefits
4:30am By Matt Simon
It’s not just easy to miss, but often downright hard to notice. A simple patch of greenery in a…As climate change threatens student athlete safety, states try to adapt
4:15am By Neal Morton, The Hechinger Report
When George LaComb moved two years ago to a new high school in Orlando, Florida, he quickly noticed…Texas saw a $50B future in clean energy. Then the political winds shifted.
Tue 4:45am By Laura Mallonee
On an unseasonably warm January day, Duff Hallman’s goats and sheep wandered unhurried through the…Oceans are absorbing the Earth’s excess energy. That’s bad news for food systems.
Tue 4:30am By Frida Garza
Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators…The West’s unprecedented winter could fuel a summer of disaster
Tue 4:15am By Tik Root
In Park City, Utah, skiers could find patches of grass poking through the slopes for much of the…Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash
Mon 4:45am By Joseph Winters
Frappuccino lovers, rejoice: Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s…With its new farm bill, Florida’s climate fight just hit a tractor-sized roadblock
Mon 4:30am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Against the backdrop of a looming global energy crisis, rising food insecurity, and the increased…‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California
Sun 9:00am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
Harris Ranch Resort isn’t close to much. Residents of California’s major cities know it mainly…DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
Sat 9:00am By Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica
Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National…To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
Fri 4:45am By Kate Yoder
At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they…California’s fossil fuel phaseout has left it vulnerable to the Iran oil shock
Fri 4:30am By Jake Bittle
California has managed a remarkable feat over the past twenty years. Even as its economy has grown…Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’
Thu 4:45am By Frida Garza
Last week, following attacks on critical energy and water facilities escalating, the Israeli-U.S.…In Texas, Corpus Christi’s water crisis may be a glimpse into the future
Thu 4:30am By Rebecca Egan McCarthyWhen Thiago Campos bought the Mr. Fancy Pants Carwash business in Corpus Christi, Texas three years…Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.
Thu 4:15am By Miacel Spotted Elk
In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative…The frantic, high-tech fight to stop climate-fueled dengue fever
Mar 25, 2026, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
The first patient arrived just over two years ago. January was supposed to be a slow month at Santa…Fiber optic cables reveal a serious problem at the heart of modern farming
Mar 25, 2026, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Thousands of years ago, beasts of burden helped make humanity what it is today. When farmers first…Trump’s $1B payoff to stop offshore wind is even stranger than it sounds
Mar 25, 2026, 4:00 am By Jake Bittle
On Monday, President Trump’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1…A look behind the scenes of what could be Google’s biggest test of carbon capture
Mar 24, 2026, 4:45 am By Anila Yoganathan
This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press,…Utah Republicans see storing nuclear waste as a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’
Mar 24, 2026, 4:30 am By Leia Larsen
The Republicans who dominate Utah’s politics — from the legislature to the governor’s mansion…This $400B Biden climate program is surviving the Trump administration
Mar 23, 2026, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
In January, the Trump administration announced that it had completed its dismantling of yet another…
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