Norway hits the brakes on mining the Arctic Ocean — for now
Dec 13, 2024, 4:30 am By Gautama Mehta
Over the last decade and a half, deep-sea mining has captured worldwide attention as a potential source for the minerals like manganese, nickel, and cobalt that are needed to make electric vehicle batteries and other technology in support of the global energy…In his final weeks, Biden aims to cut off funding for oil and gas projects abroad
Dec 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
In the landscape of international finance for fossil fuels, some of the most important players are obscure government bodies known as “export credit agencies.” These agencies provide funding to companies seeking to build large and risky infrastructure…The climate cost of Trump’s tariffs
Dec 12, 2024, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Shortly after he was reelected last month, Donald Trump announced an economic gambit that was aggressive even by his standards. He vowed that, on the first day of his second term, he would slap 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and boost…The climate cost of Trump’s tariffs
Dec 12, 2024, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Shortly after he was elected, Donald Trump announced an economic gambit that was aggressive even by his standards. He vowed that, on the first day of his second term, he would slap 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and boost those already…Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost
Dec 11, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Every morning, for years, Josana Pinto da Costa would venture out onto the waterways lining Óbidos, Brazil, in a small fishing boat. She would glide over the murky, churning currents of the Amazon River Basin, her flat nets bringing in writhing hauls as the…How Trump could bring fish farms to the Gulf of Mexico
Dec 11, 2024, 4:30 am By Tristan Baurick
Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration four years ago and is likely to gain traction again after Trump begins his second…The Arctic just hit an unfortunate climate milestone
Dec 11, 2024, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The last nine years have been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic Circle, and this year saw a number of new milestones in the region: It was the rainiest summer on record, and plant life bloomed across the tundra at a near-record pace. As the Arctic…Does talking about climate ‘tipping points’ inspire action — or defeat?
Dec 10, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate YoderClimate tipping points are a specter looming over our future — thresholds beyond which the Earth’s systems switch into new states, often abruptly and irreversibly. The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of…This county has an ambitious climate agenda. That’s not easy in Florida.
4:45am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Florida keeps trying to kill Betsy Riley.Riley says it as a joke, a way to make light of surviving three weather-related scares over the past three years. The first time was in 2022, a year after Riley and their partner moved to Alachua County in the northern…This county has an ambitious climate agenda. That’s not easy in Florida.
4:45am By Sachi Kitajima MulkeyFlorida keeps trying to kill Betsy Riley.Riley says it as a joke, a way to make light of surviving three weather-related scares over the past three years. The first time was in 2022, a year after Riley and their partner moved to Alachua County in the northern…The Philippines is going all-in on transition minerals and endangering Indigenous lands
4:30am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but beginning in 2026, the island will become the site of the…Biden’s Energy Department races to get cleantech money out before Trump takes office
Sun 9:00am By Akielly Hu
When prominent entrepreneur Jigar Shah took over as head of the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office in 2021, he had one primary mission: to get “dollars out the door.” Now the office, which offers financing to clean energy technologies that…North Carolina town sues Duke Energy for climate ‘deception’
Dec 7, 2024, 9:00 am By Mario Alejandro Ariza, Floodlight
A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States. In a civil lawsuit, the Town Council of Carrboro accuses Duke Energy, one of the largest power companies in…This New York town doesn’t want to be a climate experiment
Dec 6, 2024, 6:00 am By Abby Rabinowitz
On a hot morning in July, Ray Apy stood in a vacant lot in upstate New York and pointed to the mowed grass, explaining what he wanted to build there: a pilot plant to convert waste into something useful. He tipped the contents of a small glass jar into his…Some of the world’s biggest cities are so polluted they’re warming slower
Dec 6, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
The question of whether global warming is accelerating is hotly contested among climate scientists. While some have argued that the current rate of warming — which hit an all-time high last year — is strictly correlated with increased fossil fuel emissions…The Trump Cabinet nominees who will decide our climate future
Dec 5, 2024, 4:45 am By Grist staff
President-elect Donald Trump has put forth a slate of Cabinet nominees that reflects a clear commitment to fossil fuels and upending the country’s efforts to address climate change. The eclectic group includes TV personalities, industry insiders, and climate…Don’t blame Biden for inflation. Blame the climate.
Dec 5, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Angela Bishop has been struggling with what she describes as “the cost of everything lately.” Groceries are one stressor, although she gets some reprieve from the free school lunches her four kids receive. Still, a few years of the stubbornly high cost of…I’m grateful for a lot of things. But not Thanksgiving.
Dec 4, 2024, 11:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The vision “This one day a year doesn’t suffice for the gratitude and appreciation that we have for our plant, animal, water, and land relatives. Our way of life is a thanks giving, every day.” — Lucy Suppah, of the Native American Youth and Family…Protection of wetlands could come down to farmers, says a new report
Dec 4, 2024, 6:00 am By Izzy Ross
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. Tucked about a mile offshore from Lake Michigan, in northern Michigan’s Charlevoix County, sits Norwood Centennial Farms. Besides some 300 cows…New technologies could refine the copper the world needs — without the dirty smelting
Dec 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Maddie Stone
At a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, a gray liquid swirls vigorously inside a reactor the size of a small watermelon. Here, scientists with the mining technology startup Still Bright are using a rare metal, vanadium, to extract a common one, copper, from…
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Sun 9:00am By Dylan Baddour & Arcelia Martin, Inside Climate News - New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
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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