Summer vacation is broke. We’re fixing it.
Jul 28, 2020, 3:55 am By Claire Elise Thompson
What a difference a year makes, folks. While 2019 gave rise to the expression “Hot Girl Summer,”…Meet UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ new youth climate advisors
Jul 27, 2020, 7:00 pm By Alexandria Herr
The United Nations is taking the youth climate movement seriously. On Monday, U.N. Secretary-General…6,000 acres of Minneapolis parks have their own police force
Jul 27, 2020, 3:59 am By Alexandria Herr
The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in late May sparked a national civil…Does the government’s food waste reduction plan pass the sniff test?
Jul 27, 2020, 3:55 am By Joseph Winters
House Democrats want Americans to stop throwing away so much gosh darn food. In a 538-page tome…Congress passes the Great American Outdoors Act, a ‘once in a generation’ conservation bill
Jul 26, 2020, 3:50 am By Chris D'Angelo
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…They spent millions to protect polluters. Then they got busted by the FBI.
Jul 25, 2020, 3:50 am By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The future of beef might be a sausage fest
Jul 24, 2020, 3:58 am By Nathanael Johnson
In April, a little black calf with dabs of white on his back hooves was born. It was the first time…Amid Trump’s rollbacks, 15 states rev up plans for electric trucks and vans
Jul 24, 2020, 3:55 am By Maria Gallucci
The world enjoyed cleaner air and clearer skies earlier this year as streets and highways largely…A jobs program to plug abandoned oil wells sounds like a win-win. Is it?
Jul 24, 2020, 3:55 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic shook up the oil industry, America was full of defunct oil wells.…Are we at the dawn of a new welfare state? This policy analyst thinks so.
Jul 24, 2020, 3:50 am By Adrienne Day
As a policy analyst with the D.C. think tank Data for Progress, Julian Brave NoiseCat has a wonk’s…Scientists unveil a plan to prevent the next pandemic (and save nature at the same time)
Jul 23, 2020, 2:00 pm By Shannon Osaka
Imagine that it’s 2035. The COVID-19 pandemic — with its partisan infighting over masks and…Morgan Stanley is starting to come clean about climate change
Jul 23, 2020, 11:53 am By Angely Mercado
Major banks play a major role in financing environmental damage. International banks including…What New Jersey’s new environmental justice law will and won’t achieve
Jul 23, 2020, 3:59 am By Rachel Ramirez
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria Lopez-Nuñez conducted “toxic tours” of her community in…How can I convince older people to be less wasteful?
Jul 23, 2020, 3:55 am By L.V. Anderson
This week’s Umbra question was answered by Grist news editor L.V. Anderson. Q.Dear Umbra, How can…Microsoft can’t achieve its climate goals alone — so it’s enlisting other companies to go net-zero
Jul 22, 2020, 11:07 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Back in January, Microsoft announced arguably the most ambitious climate plan of any tech company to…What stands in the way of all those climate plans? The election — and the filibuster.
Jul 22, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
In the beginning, there was nothing. Then there were climate plans. For over a decade, the federal…A scientist wanted us to stop flying. Just not like this.
Jul 22, 2020, 3:58 am By Kate Yoder
Two years ago, Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist based in Los Angeles, got invited to speak about…Why are farmworkers joining the strike for Black lives? Shared roots.
Jul 22, 2020, 3:55 am By Alexandria Herr
At the urging of one of the country’s main agricultural unions, farmworkers across the country…Apple’s new climate plan is mostly legit
Jul 21, 2020, 2:29 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Another one of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech giants is going green. In the past several months,…When it comes to sustainability, the path forward might mean looking back
Jul 21, 2020, 3:59 am By Yvette Cabrera
In a square patch of dirt in my childhood backyard in California, my dad decided to plant a little…
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