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Sep 24, 2024, 9:00 am By Jesse Nichols
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jesse Nichols, a video producer and reporter at Grist, and today we’re going to be talking about how worsening climate impacts are raising the profile of a largely overlooked section on state…Barcelona is turning subway trains into power stations
Sep 24, 2024, 4:45 am By Natalie Donback
Most of the passengers emerging from the station in Bellvitge, a working-class neighborhood outside Barcelona, have no idea just how innovative the city’s subway system is. Using technology not unlike the regenerative braking found in hybrids and electric…Vegan cheese won’t save the world — but this brand hopes you’ll buy it anyway
Sep 24, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
A woman wearing what can only be described as rags struggles to push something large, round, and yellow up a mountain. She lets out a primal scream. A female comedian’s face appears overhead, shimmering through ominous clouds. This is not the cold open for a…Climate impacts put insurance commissioner races in the spotlight
Sep 24, 2024, 4:15 am By Jesse Nichols
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation.During the presidential debate earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris was…California sues Exxon Mobil over ‘sham’ of plastics recycling
Sep 23, 2024, 5:53 pm By Joseph Winters
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of environmental nonprofits announced two distinct but related lawsuits against Exxon Mobil on Monday — not over the oil giant’s contribution to climate change, but over its role in the plastic…This tweak to mortgage rules could save homeowners thousands in energy bills
Sep 23, 2024, 4:45 am By Tik Root
Buried deep within the minutiae of federal regulation is a seemingly tiny policy switch that, if flicked, would dramatically raise the energy efficiency standard for new homes. Such a move would save homeowners thousands of dollars on their energy bills and…The secret ingredient in Biden’s climate law? City trees.
Sep 23, 2024, 4:30 am By msimon
You’ve probably heard that the Biden administration’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, gives people big rebates and tax credits to switch to a heat pump or electric vehicle. But the law also contains a much-less-talked-about provision…Why aren’t tribal nations installing more green energy? Blame ‘white tape.’
Sep 23, 2024, 4:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
This spring in Michigan, the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Potawatomi, or Gun Lake Tribe, received 4 million dollars from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Climate Resilience program, an initiative that aims to help tribes prepare for climate change. The…How JD Vance’s hometown has won millions in climate investment that he calls a ‘green scam’
Sep 22, 2024, 9:00 am By Oliver Milman, The Guardian
A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump’s vice president. Its future, however, may hinge upon $500 million in…In Montana, 911 calls reveal impact of heat waves on rural seniors
Sep 21, 2024, 9:00 am By Aaron Bolton, MTPR
Missoula is one of Montana’s largest cities but is surrounded by rural mountain communities where cattle ranching is king. Despite the latitude and altitude, in recent years this region has experienced punishing summer heat waves. It has been difficult for…Has extreme weather made voters care more about climate change?
Sep 20, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
Among those concerned about the climate, it’s become something of a self-evident truth that as people suffer more severe and more frequent extreme weather and grapple with global warming’s impact on their daily lives, they’ll come to understand the…A new salvo in the fight to protect the “holy grail” of environmental justice
Sep 20, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
In 1979, a woman named Margaret Bean decided to challenge the Texas state government’s decision to grant a permit for a new landfill in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston. The area was 70 percent nonwhite, and Bean and her fellow residents alleged…What scientists have learned from 20 years of microplastics research
Sep 20, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
Twenty years ago, a team of U.K. scientists sounded the alarm on a then-underappreciated problem: the breakdown of plastic litter into small, even microscopic, fragments. While many previous reports had documented the buildup of plastic bottles and bags in the…Hurricanes cost more than you think. Here’s why that matters.
Sep 19, 2024, 4:45 am By Matt Simon
Blowing 100 mile-per-hour winds, Hurricane Francine ripped into Southern Louisiana on September 11, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people. Its most dangerous and damaging effect, though, was the storm surge of seawater that it bulldozed…Climate change is sending ticks into new areas. Georgia researchers are on it.
Sep 19, 2024, 4:30 am By Emily Jones
On a blisteringly hot, sunny day this summer, Emory University researcher Arabella Lewis made her way through the underbrush in a patch of woods in Putnam County, Georgia, about an hour southeast of Atlanta. She was after something most people try desperately…The US is finally curbing floodplain development, new research shows
Sep 19, 2024, 4:15 am By Jake Bittle
Over the past century, the United States has built millions of homes along coastlines and rivers, developing on land that is all but destined to flood. At the same time that the warming of the planet has raised sea levels and increased rainfall, annual flood…Climate migration doesn’t look like you think it does
Sep 18, 2024, 11:08 am By Jess Zhang
The vision “Narrative agency is most important when reminding people of their own ability to actually do what they’re capable of.” — Ahmed Badr, co-founder of Narratio The spotlight When Rayan Mohamed was 4 years old, her family left their home in…‘Living under this constant threat’: Environmental defenders face a mounting mental health crisis
Sep 18, 2024, 4:45 am By María Paula Rubiano A.
The panic button hanging around Marcos’ neck evokes the death threat that pulled him out of the Mexican mountain forests of the Sierra de Manantlán and dragged him to the outskirts of Guadalajara. After years of intimidation, he fled his hometown after the…Opposing fracking cost one Colombian activist her mental health. She’s fighting to win it back.
Sep 18, 2024, 4:40 am By María Paula Rubiano A.
Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, a Colombian environmental advocate, received her first death threat at 19. Now 23, Morales Blanco, the public face of the country’s youth-led fight against fracking, finds herself at a crucial intersection: Not only does she…Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons
Sep 18, 2024, 4:30 am By Lylla Younes
Since she began studying mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Stanford University, Ufuoma Ovienmhada had little desire to build “tech for tech’s sake.” The university’s sustainability lab offered one route to the applied side of engineering…
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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
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