The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues
Mar 21, 2025, 4:15 am By Kate Yoder
Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has released carbon into Earth’s atmosphere, where it traps heat and alters the climate. That process has caused massive destruction and…‘Caught off guard’: EPA proposes to fire hundreds of scientists
Mar 20, 2025, 12:42 pm By Naveena Sadasivam
The mood was grim at a town hall meeting called by the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday. The gathering came one day after The New York Times reported a bombshell — Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator, plans to dismantle its Office of Research…Gavin Newsom delayed his own ‘nation-leading’ plastic policy. Why?
Mar 20, 2025, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Three years ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed off on the country’s strongest plastic reduction policy. The legislation, known as SB 54, gave the state recycling agency until 2025 to write rules to dramatically slash sales of…Why a tree-planting nonprofit in Chicago is suing the Trump administration
Mar 20, 2025, 4:30 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Reverend Brian Sauder had good news in January for 58 faith-based organizations across the Midwest. His Chicago…How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Mar 19, 2025, 4:45 am By Anita HofschneiderLoading… How the Klamath Dams Came Down By Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle Illustrations by Jackie Fawn March 19, 2025 Last year, tribal nations in Oregon and California won a decades-long fight for the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their…Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
Mar 19, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
In June 1942, Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian islands in Alaska prompted the U.S. military to activate the Alaska territorial guard, an Army reserve made up of volunteers who wanted to help protect the U.S. So many of the volunteers were from Alaska’s…You rely on this agency’s data for weather and climate forecasts. DOGE is decimating its workforce.
Mar 18, 2025, 3:19 pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Late last month, Rebecca Howard was fired from her dream job. With less than two hours’ notice, the research biologist was told to leave her position with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, surveying Alaskan shellfish and pollock…Utilities are shutting off power to a growing number of households
Mar 18, 2025, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
Electric utilities across the United States are shutting off power to a growing number of households, according to a recent report that also found most shutoffs happened during last year’s record-hot summer, a reminder that climate change fuels more intense,…‘Our people are hungry’: What federal food aid cuts mean in a warming world
Mar 18, 2025, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Every Friday, as he’s done for the last year and a half, Mark Broyles hops in his truck and drives 20 minutes from his home in Big Stone Gap to Duffield, Virginia, to pick up two boxes of free food. Though their contents are always a surprise, as the retired…Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
Mar 17, 2025, 10:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
In late February, Republicans in the House and Senate voted along party lines to repeal a Biden-era rule implementing a federal tax on methane pollution. President Donald Trump signed the measure into law on Friday — putting the country’s climate goals…The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Mar 17, 2025, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
The first thing Amanda Cronin did when her supervisor offered her a job at the Environmental Protection Agency was buy herself a big piece of chocolate cake. The 25-year old New York native had spent nine months searching for work in environmental advocacy…A greener Ramadan: How Atlanta-area mosques are cutting food waste during the Muslim holy month
Mar 16, 2025, 9:00 am By Tasnim Shamma, 285 South
One evening in early March, Nina Ansari frowns as she picks up an untouched plate of rice left on the floor of the masjid she attends near her home in Stone Mountain. “Would anyone like to take this?” she asks a group of women standing nearby. When no one…Florida is now a solar superpower. Here’s how it happened.
Mar 15, 2025, 9:00 am By Alexander C. Kaufman
Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Governor Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green…MAGA Teslas? Elon Musk is upending the politics of EVs.
Mar 14, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
President Donald Trump, the same man who once said that people promoting electric vehicles should “ROT IN HELL,” bought his own EV this week. He showed off his new Tesla Model S — red, like the Make America Great Again hats — outside the White House on…The future of Gaza’s recovery may rely on solar power
Mar 14, 2025, 4:30 am By Saqib Rahim
The first time Majd Mashharawi left her native Gaza was in 2017, to visit Tokyo. Her flight landed late at night, and she was struck by the airport’s many glittering lights. Then when she got to the urban core, she was astonished. “This is the life people…Trump’s fertilizer tariffs could disrupt US crop production, from tomatoes to corn
Mar 14, 2025, 4:00 am By Frida Garza
Farming is a risky business. Growing food for sale has always been subject to unpredictable weather conditions, shifts in price, and the spread of disease. As of last week, farmers in the United States now also have to contend with the second Trump…What Trump’s escalating trade wars mean for your grocery bill
Mar 13, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Life these days is expensive. The lingering effects of the pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, higher fuel and energy prices, and extreme weather shocks throttling the supply chain have conspired to make many everyday necessities much less affordable.…A $250M investment will help this lithium mine get up and running. That’s bad news for these tribes.
Mar 13, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
A Canadian mining company behind a massive new lithium mine in northern Nevada has received a $250 million investment to complete construction of the new mine — a project that aims to accelerate America’s shift from fossil fuel-powered cars but that has…The wildlife all around us is doing fascinating things. Are you noticing?
Mar 12, 2025, 10:46 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “Yes, plants and animals face daunting threats on our warming, crowded planet, particularly in a society that seems increasingly disconnected from the natural world. But unlike most global challenges, this one can be addressed — in part, at…New York approved a major gas pipeline expansion. What does it mean for its climate goals?
Mar 12, 2025, 9:00 am By Mariana Simões, City Limits
The United States is facing a pivotal moment in its fight against climate change as President Donald Trump carries out plans to roll back those efforts. In 2019, when New York passed its landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, or CLCPA, it…
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Sat 9:00am By Alex Hager, KUNC - The transfer of a sacred site to a copper mine is delayed once again
Fri 5:40pm By Miacel Spotted Elk - Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Fri 5:29pm By Sophie Hurwitz - How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs
Fri 4:45am By Naveena Sadasivam - How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine’s forests, and the people who depend on them
Thu 4:45am By Chad Small - In California’s largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider - The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usual
Thu 4:15am By Matt Simon - Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Wed 10:00am By Graham Lee Brewer, The Associated Press - Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
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