California inmates fight fires for pennies. Now they have a path to turn pro.
Sep 15, 2020, 1:13 pm By Joseph Winters
Inmate firefighters have battled some of California’s most destructive wildfires, including the…Right-wing conspiracists falsely linked antifa to wildfires. Then the Russian media gave them a boost.
Sep 15, 2020, 12:24 pm By Ali Breland
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…What oil executives say when they think no one’s listening
Sep 15, 2020, 3:56 am By Emily Pontecorvo
The oil and gas industry spent billions over decades on ad campaigns to misinform the public about…Google plans to power your searches with carbon-free energy by 2030
Sep 15, 2020, 3:55 am By Angely Mercado
Google announced a new plan on Monday to power all its offices and data centers with only…‘Climate arsonist’: Biden slams Trump’s wildfire response with a new insult
Sep 14, 2020, 7:33 pm By Shannon Osaka
2020 has been such a bizarre year, it’s given rise to its own alarming vocabulary —…Will the West’s giant fires spark a climate awakening?
Sep 14, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
As orange skies dawned across Northern California and parts of Oregon last week, California Governor…La Niña has arrived. That’s bad news for wildfires and hurricanes.
Sep 14, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
A gender reveal party gone awry in California last week sparked a wildfire that consumed more than…A solar-paneled roof over everyone’s head? Totally doable, she says.
Sep 14, 2020, 3:50 am By Brianna Baker
Rahwa Ghirmatzion is used to being called radical. The activist and 2017 Grist 50 Fixer believes…Joe Biden would push allies like Australia to do more on climate, adviser says
Sep 13, 2020, 3:55 am By Daniel Hurst
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…How embracing uncertainty might make me a better journalist
Sep 12, 2020, 3:59 am By Jesse Nichols
I’m a video producer here at Grist, which means I make a lot of content about solutions to the…Those orange Western skies and the science of light
Sep 12, 2020, 3:55 am By Adam Rogers
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Why is recycling so confusing? You can blame Big Oil
Sep 11, 2020, 3:31 pm By Eve Andrews
It turns out that the reason there’s so much plastic shit in the ocean isn’t that you haven’t…Oregon’s air quality is so far beyond ‘hazardous’ that no one knows what it means for health
Sep 11, 2020, 2:37 pm By Joseph Winters
As wildfires rage across much of California and the Pacific Northwest, smoke continues to clog the…How California can recover from wildfires without leaving its most vulnerable behind
Sep 11, 2020, 10:39 am By Yvette Cabrera
As fires consume more than 3 million acres across the Golden State this year, state and local…Biofuels are a controversial climate solution. Could they still help save the planet?
Sep 11, 2020, 3:59 am By Emily Pontecorvo
Of all the tools we have to curb climate change, devoting land to growing bioenergy crops is among…Report: Black households spend almost 50 percent more on utilities than white households
Sep 10, 2020, 11:00 am By Angely Mercado
By the end of this month, tens of millions of households in the U.S. stand to lose protections…How apocalyptic this fire season is — in 1 flaming chart
Sep 10, 2020, 3:59 am By Shannon Osaka
It’s still 2020 and the pandemic-slash-climate change apocalypse just got even worse. The West…Would legalizing cocaine be good for the planet?
Sep 10, 2020, 3:58 am By Eve Andrews
Q. Dear Umbra, Legalization of cocaine and crack would boost general human happiness without…U.S. regulators woke up and realized climate change could cause a financial crisis
Sep 10, 2020, 3:56 am By Emily Pontecorvo
For the first time in U.S. history, a federal regulatory agency has put out a report recognizing…56 days before the election, Trump bans offshore drilling off three Republican states
Sep 10, 2020, 3:55 am By Zoya Teirstein
Something weird happened at a Trump campaign appearance in Jupiter, Florida, on Tuesday. President…
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