How air conditioning could keep everyone cool without cooking the planet
Sep 1, 2020, 3:59 am By Maddie StoneLast month, as a record heat wave roasted California, statewide energy consumption skyrocketed,…How climate change fuels California’s biggest fires
Sep 1, 2020, 3:58 am By Alexandria HerrIf it seems like the wildfire season is getting worse and worse with each passing year, that’s not…The sun is ‘glorious’ and rain is ’nasty.’ Could weather bias be killing us?
Sep 1, 2020, 3:57 am By Kate YoderWho isn’t mourning the waning weeks of summer? It’s the season most people look forward to all…Erin Brockovich’s new book looks at the upstream causes of America’s water crisis
Sep 1, 2020, 3:55 am By Angely MercadoLongtime activist Erin Brockovich believes that many water contamination incidents might never come…‘Hurricane amnesia’: Why we might forget the lessons from Hurricane Laura
Aug 31, 2020, 3:59 am By Kate YoderThe worst storms loom large in the memory. The Great Galveston Hurricane nearly wiped the bustling…California’s attorney general is suing Trump for the 100th time to save the ‘Magna Carta’ of environmental laws
Aug 31, 2020, 3:58 am By Yvette CabreraEnvironmentalists fumed last month when the Trump administration’s Council on Environmental…Will COVID finally kill fast fashion? An expert tells us what’s next.
Aug 31, 2020, 3:50 am By Claire Elise ThompsonThe COVID-19 pandemic has touched, changed, or completely derailed just about every area of life —…Disasters are driving a mental health crisis. The only federal program to address it is underfunded.
Aug 30, 2020, 8:56 am By Dean RussellThis story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity and appears here as part of…‘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…
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