Hurricanes disproportionately harm communities of color. TV news ignores that fact.
Jun 5, 2020, 3:59 am By Emily Pontecorvo
When Hurricane Florence slammed into southeastern North Carolina in September 2018, the worst-hit…The Atlantic hurricane season just started. It’s already breaking records.
Jun 5, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
As you read this, the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially started…50 Years of Fighting: Jane Fonda talks activism with rising star Jerome Foster II
Jun 5, 2020, 3:55 am By Grist staff
She’s an Academy Award–winning actress-turned-climate evangelist with decades of activism under…US states have spent the past 5 years trying to criminalize protest
Jun 4, 2020, 3:59 am By Naveena Sadasivam
The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have…Why is everything falling apart in 2020?
Jun 4, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, Did any aspect of climate change cause the pandemic to happen this year (versus last…Tear gas and coronavirus are ‘a recipe for disaster,’ experts warn
Jun 4, 2020, 3:58 am By Shannon Osaka
As people fill city streets in protests set off by the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black…Combatting climate change, COVID-19, and systemic injustice on the same front
Jun 4, 2020, 3:55 am By Claire Elise Thompson
We now know that coronavirus — much like police brutality, mass incarceration, and climate change…Cities are shutting down bikeshares during curfews, stranding their own residents
Jun 3, 2020, 4:11 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Over the past several days, hundreds of thousands of Americans have hit the streets to protest the…‘Ring down the curtain’: What protests mean for a nation already in crisis
Jun 3, 2020, 3:59 am By Yvette Cabrera
I was a college student living in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles when the 1992 riots…How the internet transformed climate activism
Jun 3, 2020, 3:58 am By Kate Yoder
It all started with the Albany Pine Bush. The sand dunes in upstate New York, dotted with scraggly…On top of everything, hurricane season is here and most Americans don’t have flood insurance
Jun 3, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
Monday was the official first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, though the season unofficially…#BlackBirdersWeek takes on systemic racism
Jun 2, 2020, 3:38 pm By Emily Benson
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the…Grist has acquired Pacific Standard
Jun 2, 2020, 10:30 am By Brady Piñero Walkinshaw
Dear Grist community: The past week has been extraordinarily painful in the midst of what was…6 tips for becoming a youth activist (as told by a youth activist)
Jun 2, 2020, 3:59 am By Rachel Ramirez
Back in 2017, Jamie Margolin, a Seattle high school student, founded an organization called Future…Climate change threatens the economy. Here’s what regulators can do right now.
Jun 2, 2020, 3:55 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Many of the economic risks of climate change are already crystal clear, and yet financial markets…Responding to protests, green groups reckon with a racist past
Jun 2, 2020, 3:50 am By Shannon Osaka
Already stressed by the threat of coronavirus and widespread unemployment, the United States has…Protests are bringing attention to the ‘everyday violence’ faced by black Americans
Jun 1, 2020, 5:14 pm By Rachel Ramirez
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer early last week, cities…Obama’s Recovery Act breathed life into renewables. Now they need rescuing.
Jun 1, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
It was the beginning of 2009, and the U.S. economy was hemorrhaging more than half a million jobs…Shareholders to Big Oil: Do more on climate change
Jun 1, 2020, 3:55 am By Emily Pontecorvo
‘Tis the season for so-called annual general meetings — typically the only time of year when…In Canada, Inuit communities are shaping research priorities
May 31, 2020, 3:55 am By Matthew Halliday
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
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