California inspired a wave of plastic bag bans — with an unfortunate loophole
Oct 11, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
Ten years ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags. But over the next few…After Milton, Florida assesses damage from back-to-back climate disasters
Oct 10, 2024, 11:21 am By Tik Root
Hurricane Milton made landfall on Wednesday night, near Siesta Keys, Florida, as a Category 3 storm,…Black residents in Cancer Alley try what may be a last legal defense to curb toxic pollution
Oct 10, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
On the banks of the lower Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana, on sprawling tracts of…As Hurricane Milton approaches, FEMA faces funding challenges, misinformation, and politicization
Oct 9, 2024, 5:38 pm By Frida Garza
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. agency in charge of disaster relief, is facing…Let’s discuss the ethics of climate action
Oct 9, 2024, 11:15 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “Our planet is transforming in a way that will make life much harder for most people.…Ducks love to eat this climate-friendly food. Now you might, too.
Oct 9, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Like a priceless painting, the beautiful blue and green swirl in a lake or pond presents a…‘I can’t think straight’: Still buried beneath Helene’s debris, Floridians brace for Milton
Oct 8, 2024, 12:44 pm By Joseph Winters
Less than two weeks ago, Val Stunja was frantically stacking furniture and belongings on her kitchen…How Helene changes the election
Oct 8, 2024, 9:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein. We’ve heard it time and…Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids
Oct 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Gautama Mehta
By the time that Hurricane Helene made its way hundreds of miles inland on September 27, it had been…The solar supply chain runs through this flooded North Carolina town
Oct 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Maddie Stone
Due to a quirk of geology, the purest quartz in all the world comes from the picturesque town of…How Hurricane Milton exploded into an ‘extraordinary’ storm
Oct 7, 2024, 5:46 pm By Matt Simon
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern United States, killing…For Floridians in mobile homes, Hurricane Helene was a disaster waiting to happen
Oct 7, 2024, 1:29 pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Chelsy Robison huddled in an empty building on the Paradise Park mobile home campground in Perry,…Al Gore thought stopping climate change would be hard. But not this hard.
Oct 7, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
At a congressional hearing on the greenhouse effect in 1981, Al Gore, then a member of the House of…How California boosted composting — but broke local composters in the process
Oct 7, 2024, 4:15 am By Twilight Greenaway
Reporting for this story was supported by the Climate Equity Reporting Project at the UC Berkeley…Indigenous voters worry a Harris presidency means endangering sacred lands
Oct 7, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
At an August rally in Glendale, Arizona, the rowdiness of the crowd suggested a rockstar was about…In arid New Mexico, a debate over reusing oil-industry wastewater
Oct 6, 2024, 9:00 am By Sara Van Note, Undark
This year, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission held a hearing in Santa Fe to seek…The end of an era: Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down
Oct 5, 2024, 9:00 am By Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian
Britain’s only remaining coal power plant at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire generated…Fact-checking the viral conspiracies in the wake of Hurricane Helene
Oct 4, 2024, 4:51 pm By Zoya Teirstein
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are…Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from.
Oct 4, 2024, 3:21 pm By Jake Bittle
Even as the full scale of devastation in the mountainous regions of North Carolina and Tennessee…Can shaming the world’s worst ‘climate criminals’ save the planet?
Oct 4, 2024, 9:00 am By John Thomason
An unfailingly friendly 30-year-old with tousled black hair and a slight, willowy frame, Michael…
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