Foundations pour money into tackling climate change, but not curbing carbon
May 23, 2018, 3:42 pm By Nathanael Johnson
Big charitable foundations that shape the climate movement dole out cash for renewables and energy…Hawaii’s rarest plants are in crisis. Meet the people fighting to save them.
May 23, 2018, 7:20 am By Zoya Teirstein
Residents weren’t alarmed when it started raining in Kauai a month ago. It rains there often. In…EPA guard physically shoved a reporter out of the building
May 23, 2018, 7:00 am By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…These Republican representatives say they’re ready for climate action. Can we believe them?
May 22, 2018, 1:54 pm By Kate Yoder
Three Republican representatives — Tom MacArthur of New Jersey, Peter Roskam of Illinois, and…A building El Niño in 2018 signals more extreme weather for 2019
May 22, 2018, 11:39 am By Eric Holthaus
In case you couldn’t get enough extreme weather, the next 12 months or so could bring even more…What’ll we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.
May 22, 2018, 7:12 am By Nathanael Johnson
Chris Sayer pushed his way through avocado branches and grasped a denuded limb. It was stained…Officials tried to censor a report on national parks. Here’s what was in it.
May 21, 2018, 6:04 pm By Greta Jochem
Roughly 25 percent of U.S. national parks are vulnerable to rising sea levels because they’re…Satirical ad reveals how to live luxuriously like Scott Pruitt
May 18, 2018, 7:40 pm By Kate Yoder
original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h16ab9ot80 EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt got…Utah sobers up from climate denial
May 18, 2018, 4:06 pm By Nathanael Johnson
The flamboyantly conservative state of Utah — home to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, an…For 400 months in a row, our planet has been unusually hot
May 17, 2018, 2:56 pm By Eric Holthaus
Our overheating planet just reached another staggering — maybe even astronomical — new…Can Oakland still stop the coal trains?
May 17, 2018, 2:25 pm By Nathanael Johnson
When a federal judge struck down Oakland’s ban on coal shipments this week, it represented a…Yes, you too can be a Grist fellow. Apply now!
May 17, 2018, 7:00 am By Grist staff
Are you an early-career journalist, storyteller, or multimedia wizard who digs what we do? Then…Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even worse than usual
May 17, 2018, 4:58 am By Eric Holthaus
Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since Grist first wrote about it six months ago.…Rex Tillerson funded climate denial at Exxon. Now he’s suddenly a big fan of facts.
May 16, 2018, 7:36 pm By Kate Yoder
Rex Tillerson, ex-Secretary of State, has some words for the Trump administration about capital-T…There’s been a mysterious rise in ozone-destroying emissions
May 16, 2018, 7:01 pm By Greta Jochem
Thought the ozone layer was safe? Think again. CFC-11 is an ozone-depleting chemical whose phase out…We can now see how humans have altered Earth’s water resources
May 16, 2018, 1:01 pm By Eric Holthaus
For millennia, humans have harnessed rivers, built dams, and dug wells to quench our growing…We’re ignoring the biggest Pruitt scandal: He’s making pollution worse
May 15, 2018, 3:54 pm By Kate Yoder
It’s hard to look away from the scandals engulfing EPA chief Scott Pruitt. The guy dined with a…Climate change, my microbiome, and me
May 15, 2018, 2:22 pm By Lisa Selin Davis
Those of us who believe in climate change (and maybe some who don’t) jokingly blame all kinds of…How to stop a humanitarian disaster before it happens
May 15, 2018, 6:57 am By Eric Holthaus
In an era of increasingly extreme hurricanes, floods and drought, the people in charge of preparing…Scott Pruitt’s vision of a ‘lean’ EPA includes spending a lot of money on himself
May 14, 2018, 7:19 pm By Kate Yoder
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the new “Office of Continuous Improvement” on…
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