The ‘weather whiplash’ fueling the Los Angeles fires is becoming more common
Jan 9, 2025, 5:00 am By Kate Yoder
It’s supposed to be the rainy season in Southern California, but the last time Los Angeles measured more than a tenth-inch of rain was eight months ago, after the city logged one of the soggiest periods in its recorded history. Since then, bone-dry…Energy is central to American politics. That all started with Jimmy Carter.
Jan 9, 2025, 4:30 am By Gautama Mehta
In 1981, a Democratic president who’d made energy policy a centerpiece of his administration left the White House after just one term — voted out partly due to the perception that he didn’t do enough to combat inflation and high energy prices amid…Why Los Angeles is burning in January
5:54pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Harel Dor and Finn O’Brien were just finishing up dinner at a restaurant in Pasadena, California on Tuesday evening, when a friend texted them about an evacuation warning. A severe windstorm had spread what became the Eaton fire to the hills behind their…California overhauled its insurance system. Then Los Angeles caught fire.
5:00pm By Jake Bittle
On Tuesday, after a ferocious Santa Ana windstorm blew through Southern California, a severe brush fire broke out in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, burning 1,000 structures and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate as…What’s missing from Biden’s offshore drilling ban? The western Gulf of Mexico.
3:11pm 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 applauded President Joe…Scientists are looking for CO2-gobbling microbes in extreme environments — like your home
11:19am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The spotlight There I was: teetering on the top of a ladder with my headlamp and a sampling vial, ready to brave the bats, cockroaches, and spiders in the attic of my family’s Florida home, in search of an even smaller — and infinitely more mysterious —…The promises and challenges of the Philippines’ new climate-resilient city
4:45am By Maggie Wang
The highway approaching New Clark City is wide — four lanes each way in places — but carries little traffic. Newly installed streetlamps, powered by sunlight, dot the median. Construction equipment and recently finished buildings rise ahead, where the…People are flocking to Florida. Will there be enough water for them?
4:30am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida’s biggest environmental problems: There’s either too much…California and environmental groups sued Exxon over plastics. Now Exxon is striking back.
Tue 6:10pm By Joseph Winters
On Monday, Exxon Mobil filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental groups over their criticism of the company’s plastics recycling initiatives. In the complaint filed in federal court in Beaumont, Texas, the…Will the world fall in love with nuclear power once more?
Tue 4:30am By Matt Simon
The Simpsons did nuclear power dirty. With towers looming over Springfield, three-eyed fish swimming the lake, and an inept Homer running things, the show’s nuclear power plant is a perpetual existential risk. It’s a reliable running gag to be sure, but…The business case for saving coral reefs
Jan 6, 2025, 4:45 am By Saqib Rahim
Days after hurricanes Irma and Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, Ernesto Diaz formed a team to survey what the Category 5 storms had done to his home. Touring coastal areas, Diaz, then an assistant secretary with the commonwealth’s Department of…Developers eye Louisiana, Texas coasts for offshore carbon storage
Jan 5, 2025, 9:00 am By Pam Radtke, Floodlight
The fishers in Gulf of Mexico waters off Cameron Parish, Louisiana, estimate their catch has fallen catastrophically from 1 million tons a season to 150,000 tons since the first liquefied natural gas terminal in the parish began operating eight years ago. Now,…As states line up to battle Trump over climate, Pennsylvania could be on the sidelines
Jan 4, 2025, 9:00 am By Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main
As President-elect Donald Trump takes direct aim at federal climate policy, states and their attorneys general are preparing to fight back. In California, the governor has asked legislators for $25 million to fight off any effort by Trump to upend the…‘We have been heard’: Montana youth score a major climate victory in court
Jan 3, 2025, 6:07 pm By Joseph Winters
Montana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the 16 youth who sued the state in a landmark climate change lawsuit have a constitutional right to “a clean and healthful environment.” The 6-1 decision upheld a lower court ruling in Held v. Montana, in which the…Traditional weather forecasting is slow and expensive. AI could help.
Jan 3, 2025, 4:45 am By Natalie Donback
Every day, meteorologist Hannah Wangari takes the free graphs and maps produced by the five forecasting models she subscribes to and interprets what she sees. “What’s the likelihood of rain in different parts of the country?” she might wonder. “How…How Elon Musk could end fossil fuel subsidies
Jan 3, 2025, 4:30 am By Tik Root
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to upend the federal government, and he has enlisted firebrands Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him do it. The two men are set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency and aim to trim $2…Chicago keeps its New Year’s resolution: All city buildings now use 100 percent clean power
Jan 2, 2025, 4:45 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago’s more than 400 municipal buildings…Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief
Dec 23, 2024, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
On the second weekend after Hurricane Helene, Swannanoa Christian Church held its first Sunday service since the storm battered western North Carolina. The sanctuary was piled high with clothes, water, and food, so everyone gathered outdoors. Out in the yard,…Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’
Dec 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants — nearly a third of whom already live in places where water is increasingly scarce and the ability to raise crops and…Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change
Dec 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The crowd sways like starlings in murmuration as we wait for the show to start. The relaxed vibe belies the pandamonium about to be unleashed. Metal concerts are like that. To an outsider, they appear violent, and they can be, but to fans like me they are a…
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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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