‘Cascading disasters’: What a hurricane means when you live next to a refinery
Aug 29, 2020, 6:59 am By Rachel RamirezBefore Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, meteorologists warned that it would hit…What crisis? RNC totally ignored the climate.
Aug 29, 2020, 3:55 am By Oliver MilmanThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…A California wildfire response plan that actually matches the scale of the problem
Aug 28, 2020, 3:59 am By Nathanael JohnsonAfter four years of choking summer smoke, massive wildfires are starting to seem like they are a…In Louisiana, grief surges with another storm. So does hope.
Aug 28, 2020, 3:55 am By Princella TalleyI live in the great state of Louisiana. It’s a state where you’ll most frequently hear two…What it looked like after Hurricane Laura struck the Gulf Coast
Aug 27, 2020, 7:03 pm By Emily PontecorvoHurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, last night, bringing destructive 150 mile per…‘Real talk’ with two environmental justice leaders
Aug 27, 2020, 2:29 pm By Grist staffLast Friday, Fix hosted an Instagram Live conversation between two leaders in the fight for climate…Smoke, heat, and COVID-19: Californians are caught between public health crises
Aug 27, 2020, 12:53 pm By Alexandria HerrWildfires have blazed across the West this month, burning millions of acres in California, Colorado,…Before Laura, there was Katrina. What lessons does New Orleans have for coastal cities?
Aug 27, 2020, 11:52 am By Daniel PennerView the video in your browser In the quest to pump every drop of water outside city walls, New…How do I tell my friends they shouldn’t be having kids?
Aug 27, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve AndrewsQ. Dear Umbra, Friends are having kids; I feel awful for them because they’ll be living with…Even shut down, Texas oil refineries in Hurricane Laura’s path will emit nearly 4 million pounds of pollution
Aug 26, 2020, 6:24 pm By Zoya TeirsteinA flurry of activity precedes a major storm like the Category 4 hurricane barreling toward the Gulf…A new app tracks your carbon footprint in real-time. It’s funded by BP.
Aug 26, 2020, 3:59 am By Kate YoderIf only there were an app that would let you track your personal carbon footprint in real-time, like…3 ways the Senate Democrats’ new climate plan is all about money
Aug 26, 2020, 3:57 am By Shannon OsakaAnother day, another 100-plus-page Democratic plan to address our overheating planet and the growing…In Texas, a battle is brewing over a Trump EPA official’s confidential emails
Aug 26, 2020, 3:55 am By Naveena SadasivamWhen the Trump administration tapped Michael Honeycutt to lead the Environmental Protection…The 2020 hurricane season is tearing through the alphabet at ‘LMNOP’ speed
Aug 25, 2020, 1:43 pm By Zoya TeirsteinIn April, Penn State’s Earth System Science Center released its predictions for the 2020 Atlantic…Billie Eilish’s ‘my future’ isn’t ironic, and that’s the point
Aug 25, 2020, 1:37 pm By Eve AndrewsI wouldn’t want to be a teenager again even for a billion dollars. Enduring that stage of life is…LA’s homeless communities are avoiding cooling centers, and it’s not just because of COVID-19
Aug 25, 2020, 3:59 am By Alexandria HerrTheodore Henderson has experienced lots of heat waves during the seven years that he’s been…Harvard activists’ new fossil fuel divestment strategy: Make it an inside job.
Aug 25, 2020, 3:58 am By Emily PontecorvoThe fossil fuel divestment movement won a significant victory on Friday: Harvard University alumni…Democrats’ climate plan takes aim at the fossil fuel industry’s political power
Aug 24, 2020, 1:50 pm By Emily HoldenThis story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…Why does Joe Biden call climate change an ‘enormous opportunity’?
Aug 24, 2020, 3:59 am By Kate YoderFlanked by two American flags, Joe Biden delivered an optimistic speech to accept the Democratic…One solution to California’s blackouts? The world’s biggest battery.
Aug 24, 2020, 3:55 am By Emily PontecorvoMove over, Australia — California has stolen the claim for largest battery installation in the…
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