Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying anyway
Apr 10, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke…New York City is making people compost — or pay up
Apr 10, 2025, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
Property owners and landlords in New York City can now be fined $25 or more if residents are found…After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned
Apr 10, 2025, 4:00 am By Erin Rode
After the Palisades Fire destroyed her son’s high school, Shoshanha Essakhar found herself among…Why Trump’s executive order targeting state climate laws is probably illegal
Apr 9, 2025, 6:23 pm By Lois Parshley
President Trump continued dismantling U.S. climate policy this week when he directed the Justice…France’s new high-speed train design has Americans asking: Why can’t we have that?
Apr 9, 2025, 10:54 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight Last month, France’s national railway operator released a glimpse of the designs for…Trump axed a rule designed to spare taxpayers the burden of future flooding
Apr 9, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station…How Trump’s war on climate and equity is impacting ‘woke investing’
Apr 9, 2025, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
Environmental-, social-, and governance-related shareholder proposals are down 34 percent this year…The world is heating up. How much can our bodies handle?
Apr 8, 2025, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In the summer of 2023, a dozen people willingly walked into a steel chamber at the University of…The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
Apr 7, 2025, 4:45 am By Laura Mallonee
Jon Dale’s love affair with birds began when he was about 10 and traded his BB gun for a pair of…In New England, Canadian hydropower has slowed to an ominous trickle
Apr 6, 2025, 9:00 am By Sarah Shemkus, Canary Media
On March 6, at the start of the still-simmering trade war between the U.S. and Canada, hydropower…Closures of EPA’s regional environmental justice offices will hurt rural America
Apr 5, 2025, 9:00 am By Julia Tilton, The Daily Yonder
Environmental justice efforts at the 10 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional offices have…Did climate change supercharge the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ storm pummeling the central U.S.?
Apr 4, 2025, 3:53 pm By Matt Simon
A major storm took hold across swaths of the central and southern United States on Wednesday…The USDA is unfreezing clean energy money — but ‘inviting’ grant recipients to remove DEI and climate language
Apr 4, 2025, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Jim Lively wants to install rooftop solar panels on his family’s local food market, just minutes…The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
Apr 4, 2025, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
When Solomon Kahoʻohalahala arrived in Jamaica in mid-March to attend a meeting of the…The quest to fix the irony at the heart of every heat pump
Apr 4, 2025, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
Heat pumps are essential for ditching fossil fuels. The appliances are many times more efficient…A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast track industrial fish farming in the Gulf
Apr 4, 2025, 3:45 am By Tristan Baurick
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news…FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs
Apr 3, 2025, 9:40 pm By Zoya Teirstein
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is known for responding to extreme weather like…A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate and health funding
Apr 3, 2025, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, issued an urgent alert about…What makes middle school even worse? Climate anxiety.
Apr 3, 2025, 4:15 am By Kate Yoder
When the Marshall Fire swept through the grassy plains and foothills outside Boulder, Colorado, in…How Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs could kill American innovation
Apr 2, 2025, 5:05 pm By Tik Root
On Wednesday, President Donlad J. Trump announced a sweeping new round of tariffs on goods coming…
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