Report: Global climate ambitions still fall short ahead of COP27
Oct 27, 2022, 11:00 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Last November, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations’ annual…Tax the rich for climate action? Protect towns from floods? It’s on state ballots this November.
Oct 27, 2022, 10:45 am By Blanca Begert
For years, with climate bills stalled in Congress, advocates, community groups, nonprofits, and even…The US is finally ready to discuss climate reparations. But is it ready to act?
Oct 27, 2022, 10:30 am By Naveena SadasivamAt a New York Times event last month, Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry caused a stir…How sunken basketball courts could protect New Yorkers from the next Superstorm Sandy
Oct 26, 2022, 10:30 am By Jake Bittle
Almost every time it rains in New York City, the grounds of the South Jamaica Houses start to flood.…As drought chokes Mississippi River, barges carrying grain shipments have nowhere to go
Oct 26, 2022, 10:15 am By John McCrackenHarvest time has come, but ongoing droughts have left farmers with nowhere to send their grain…Report: Human health is ‘at the mercy of fossil fuels’
Oct 26, 2022, 10:15 am By Zoya TeirsteinEvery year for the past seven years, the medical journal the Lancet has published a report…The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
Oct 25, 2022, 10:45 am By Jake Bittle
This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled…Rishi Sunak is ‘better news than Truss’ on climate change, but by how much?
Oct 25, 2022, 10:30 am By Blanca BegertOver the past several months, Britain has seen the death of a monarch, the proclamation of a new…380 million tons of plastic are made every year. None of it is truly recyclable.
Oct 24, 2022, 10:45 am By Joseph WintersNo plastic is truly recyclable — not even the water bottles and milk jugs that people usually toss…Idaho cobalt mine is a harbinger of what’s to come
Oct 24, 2022, 10:00 am By Kylie Mohr
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of…Los escombros de los desastres están empujando los vertederos de Puerto Rico al límite
Oct 21, 2022, 11:25 pm By Camille A. Padilla Dalmau
Este artículo fue apoyado por la organización sin fines de lucro de periodismo Economic Hardship…Disaster debris is pushing Puerto Rico’s landfills to the brink
Oct 21, 2022, 10:45 am By Camille A. Padilla Dalmau
This story was produced in collaboration with 9 Millones, a digital media outlet based in Puerto…Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?
Oct 20, 2022, 10:45 am By Lylla Younes
In the late summer of 2018, hundreds of residents packed into the community center of an affluent…The selective accounting behind the plastic industry’s climate-friendly claims
Oct 20, 2022, 10:30 am By Joseph Winters
As the plastics industry ramps up production, plastic pollution continues to accumulate in the…How a Utah utility is helping an Estonian oil company hoard Colorado River water
Oct 19, 2022, 10:45 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Millions of years before dinosaurs went extinct, what is now Utah was submerged by a broad, shallow…EPA finally calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Oct 19, 2022, 10:30 am By Lisa Song
This story was reported in collaboration with ProPublica. Louisiana must examine how polluters…Starved of new talent: Young people are steering clear of oil jobs
Oct 18, 2022, 10:45 am By Kate Yoder
In late May, António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, stood in blue…Cities want more trees. Drought is complicating their efforts.
Oct 18, 2022, 10:30 am By Blanca Begert
This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled…The West’s biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought?
Oct 18, 2022, 10:15 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Reports of low water levels at a few big hydropower plants in the West over the last few years have…Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet
Oct 17, 2022, 10:45 am By Kate YoderIf you’re feeling anxious about climate change, the common wisdom goes, there’s an antidote:…
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