Justin Trudeau taxed fossil fuels — and paid the price
Jan 17, 2025, 4:15 am By Jake Bittle
Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister of Canada signals the departure of one of the world’s leading climate hawks. From the moment the charismatic young progressive took power a decade ago, he staked his career on aggressive climate action,…What sparks a wildfire? The answer often remains a mystery.
Jan 17, 2025, 4:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
What’s shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire disasters in U.S. history had many causes. Before the blazes raged across Los Angeles last week, eight months with hardly any rain had left the brush-covered landscape bone-dry. Santa Ana winds blew through…Biden administration gives up on lower ocean speed limits to protect right whales
Jan 17, 2025, 3:45 am By Emily Jones
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. Federal regulators are abandoning a proposal to expand ocean speed limits that were designed to protect North Atlantic right whales. The whales, which give…Lead in the water and chloroprene in the air: Whom does the EPA protect?
Jan 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
Who does the EPA protect? The Biden administration promised change for overpolluted communities in the South. Four years later, they’re still waiting. By Lylla Younes Jan 16, 2025 When President Joe Biden announced his Justice40 Initiative, a week after he…Lead in the water and chloroprene in the air: Who does the EPA protect?
Jan 16, 2025, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
Who does the EPA protect? The Biden administration promised change for overpolluted communities in the South. Four years later, they’re still waiting. By Lylla Younes Jan 16, 2025 When President Joe Biden announced his Justice40 Initiative, a week after he…A new frontier in the voluntary carbon market: Old, leaky oil wells
Jan 16, 2025, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
The environmental harm of oil and gas wells doesn’t end when the pumping stops. If disused wells remain unplugged — the term of art for closing them up with concrete and remediating the environment around them — they can leach toxic chemicals and spew…Saving the surf is a climate solution
Jan 16, 2025, 4:15 am By Avery Schuyler Nunn
Vibrant shades of green merge with brilliant streaks of blue where the land meets the sea on Rao Island, which sits just west of Morotai in the northeastern corner of the Indonesian archipelago. Fishing boats bob in the bay, and children perched on the…Mitsubishi cancels plans for a $1.3 billion chemical plant in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Jan 16, 2025, 4:00 am By Tristan Baurick
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area. Environmental groups are claiming victory after…Fiction to reality: Will the U.S. ever embrace insect cuisine?
Jan 15, 2025, 11:18 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “After the ninth epidemic of mad cow disease, everyone was already eating insects. So we weren’t the first restaurant in PuertoChina to do it,” said Nai Nai. Nai Nai often told these stories while she and Grace squatted in a corner of the…The American Climate Corps is over. What even was it?
Jan 15, 2025, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Giorgio Zampaglione loved his two-hour commute from the town of Mount Shasta into the surrounding northern California forests last summer. The way the light filtered through the trees on the morning drive was unbeatable, he said. He ate lunch with his crew,…How states will keep fighting for climate progress under Trump
Jan 15, 2025, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
This coverage is made possible in part through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Even before President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House next Monday, California got ahead of things. Anticipating more of…In Wyoming, tribal protests prevent land transfer — for now
Jan 15, 2025, 4:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
A tiny scrap of land within the bounds of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming has become the center of a heated debate. The roughly two-acre site is home to the Pilot Butte Power Plant, a defunct hydroelectric station that a local irrigation district is…Altadena has avoided California’s fire insurance hell. That won’t last.
Jan 14, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Randy and Miki Quinton held hands as they walked uphill into what remains of their neighborhood in Altadena, the unincorporated Los Angeles suburb where they had lived for more than 20 years. After they entered the barricaded neighborhood through an open…Deb Haaland, America’s first Native Cabinet secretary, considers her legacy
Jan 14, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
When Deb Haaland was chosen as the secretary of the Interior by President Joe Biden in 2021, she was the first Native American ever to serve in the U.S. Cabinet. It was a seminal moment for tribal citizens: For more than 150 years, the Interior Department had…Another year, more blackouts in Puerto Rico
Jan 14, 2025, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
Around 5:30 in the morning on December 31, Yvonne Santiago was woken up by a sudden stillness: The fans had switched off. It must be a power outage, she quickly reasoned, and went back to sleep. When she woke up again hours later, she learned that the outage…A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants
Jan 13, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each unknowingly leaves antibiotic microorganisms secreted from its feet. …Climate change threatens the mental well-being of youths. Here’s how to help them cope.
Jan 12, 2025, 9:00 am By Bernard J. Wolfson, KFF Health News
We’ve all read the stories and seen the images: The life-threatening heat waves. The wildfires of unprecedented ferocity. The record-breaking storms washing away entire neighborhoods. The melting glaciers, the rising sea levels, the coastal flooding.…‘All hands on deck’: How Watch Duty keeps up with the California wildfires
Jan 11, 2025, 9:00 am By Boone Ashworth, WIRED
For days, horrific wildfires have torn through Los Angeles, and they are still raging. The Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have moved so fast that people have been stuck in their homes or had to abandon cars and wheelchairs on the side of the road…The climate benefits of NYC’s hard-won congestion pricing plan
Jan 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
After months — and, for some, years — of anticipation, congestion pricing is live in New York City. The controversial policy, which essentially makes it more expensive to drive into the busiest part of Manhattan, has been floated as a way to reduce…Biden administration axes controversial climate plan for old growth forests
Jan 9, 2025, 12:32 pm By Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between BPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. After spending more than two years drafting a plan to manage and protect the nation’s old-growth forests as they endure the ravages of…
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9:00am By Dylan Baddour & Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News - New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
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
Wed 4:45am By Matt Simon
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