How to sell an ‘ugly’ vegetable? Give it googly eyes.
4:45am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
You may have seen them wielded by prank-loving grandmas in department stores, peeking out from robotic vacuum cleaners, or adorning statues on college campuses. But googly eyes, those cartoon-like eyeballs often found in arts and crafts projects, aren’t just…Climate change is drastically changing life for Indigenous peoples in the Pacific
4:30am By Anita Hofschneider
A new report from the United Nations found that the southwest Pacific region faced more extreme drought and rainfall than average last year and dozens of disasters, including two cyclones in Vanuatu. The report underscores long-held concerns about how climate…EV sales are growing. So why are automakers getting cold feet?
Sun 9:00am By Tim Stevens, Canary Media
There’s a bit of a disturbing trend in the automotive world right now. Several traditional automakers are suddenly easing off the electrification accelerator in response to a perceived slowdown in EV interest and sales. Whether that slowdown is real…As Tornado Alley shifts east, bracing for impact in unexpected places
Sep 7, 2024, 9:00 am By Kiley Bense, Inside Climate News
As the remnants of Hurricane Ida barreled north in September 2021, Chris Erdner heard a startling warning on TV: Residents in her area needed to seek shelter immediately. Erdner’s quiet suburban neighborhood in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was directly…How Big Oil’s big money influences climate research
Sep 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
For more than a decade, students have been begging their universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies. In 2019, protesters stormed the field of a Harvard-Yale football game at halftime, yelling, “Hey hey, ho ho! Fossil fuels have got to go!”…An unlikely line of defense during heat waves: Food banks
Sep 6, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
On a Tuesday morning in mid-August, Mary Hynes was blasting her air conditioning. Hynes has walking problems, and she said she’s passed out “a couple of times” in the past. The issue went away after having her pacemaker adjusted, but it was enough to…From the cradle: How kids, newborns, and the unborn jump-started South Korea’s historic climate lawsuit
Sep 6, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Choi Hee-woo was a 20-week-old embryo when he joined a landmark climate lawsuit in South Korea. At the time, his mother was planning to make Choi’s older sibling a plaintiff in a lawsuit that argued the South Korean government had not taken sufficient action…As Pennsylvania chooses the next president, its unions are choosing clean energy
Sep 6, 2024, 4:00 am By Gautama Mehta
The U.S. presidential campaigns both have their eyes on the critical swing state of Pennsylvania — and Pennsylvania, as ever, has its eyes on energy. The state is the nation’s second-largest producer and exporter of fuels for energy — mostly natural gas…Biden’s FEMA director tried to fix the agency. Did she succeed?
Sep 4, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
When President Joe Biden nominated Deanne Criswell to serve as the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2021, she received a unanimous confirmation, a rare gesture of bipartisan support from the bitterly divided U.S. Senate. A longtime…What back-to-back storms did to Lake Charles, Louisiana
Sep 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and today we’re going to be talking about a place one journalist dubbed, “the most unfortunate city in the United States.” It’s been just over four years since Hurricane Laura…Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
Sep 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
It’s been four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status. It was the fiercest storm the state had seen in a century, driving more than 10 feet of storm surge onto land. Six weeks later, Hurricane Delta, a…As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?
Sep 2, 2024, 9:00 am By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two thirds of a mile thick, the Thwaites Glacier disgorges into the ocean in a remote region of West Antarctica. Glaciologists say it may be on the verge of total collapse, which…Midwest grid operators submit $1.7 billion plan to build cross-border power lines
Sep 1, 2024, 9:00 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The two grid operators providing power to the Midwestern U.S. are proposing to build $1.7 billion worth of new transmission lines to bridge the “seam” between their networks. The move could unlock huge amounts of clean power and potentially serve as…GOP-run districts get 85% of the benefit of climate law. Some still hate it.
Aug 31, 2024, 9:00 am By Kristi E. Swartz, Floodlight
Ajulo Othow started solar and storage company EnerWealth Solutions seven years ago to get small solar projects on farmland and other places in rural communities in the Southeast where money is tight and the phrase “green economy” is rarely spoken. In just…How climate change is expanding the reach of a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness
Aug 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire died last week after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness called eastern equine encephalitis virus, also known as EEE or “triple E”. It was New Hampshire’s first human case of the disease in a decade. Four other…NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
Aug 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
New York City, the city that never sleeps, is also an incredibly hard place to take a break — if your job is jetting across town on a bike delivering takeout and groceries. “As things stand, there isn’t a designated place for us to rest while…States are falling behind in using IRA funding to advance climate action
Aug 30, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, into law two years ago, a starting gun sounded. “The race is on,” said Jacob Corvidae, a senior principal with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a clean energy think tank, for states to…Voices of Vogtle: Four oral histories
Aug 29, 2024, 9:37 am By Lyndsey Gilpin
As part of Grist and WABE’s yearlong collaboration to demystify the Georgia Public Service Commission, we hosted a Community Reporting Fellowship — a six-week training program in which fellows learned journalism skills and created a project about energy…Amazon says it’s going ‘water positive’ — but there’s a problem
Aug 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Earlier this year, the e-commerce corporation Amazon secured approval to open two new data centers in Santiago, Chile. The $400 million venture is the company’s first foray into locating its data facilities, which guzzle massive amounts of electricity and…A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from shellfish waste.
Aug 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, potatoes, and lettuce can be harvested in abundance at The People’s Pantry, a community garden that doubles as a fresh food pantry in Blackpool, England. There, residents living in adjacent affordable housing units tend…
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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
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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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