One year after the Great Flood, Louisiana’s most vulnerable cope with the losses
Aug 9, 2017, 6:00 am By John Upton
The summertime rain that usually pounds Louisiana in fits and starts had been falling for a day and…The New York Times published a leaked governmental memo on climate change — eventually.
Aug 8, 2017, 4:18 pm By Eric Holthaus
The congressionally mandated report compiles the recent work of tens of thousands of scientists from…An art installation about rising seas sank into a Philly river.
Aug 8, 2017, 3:56 pm By Kate Yoder
A floating houseboat meant to inspire conversation around climate change met a watery death on…West Virginia’s governor wants a new subsidy for coal.
Aug 8, 2017, 3:20 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
Jim Justice swapped parties in a highly publicized rally with President Trump. Now, he has a novel…This Hawaiian mayor is scoring touchdowns for clean energy
Aug 8, 2017, 8:05 am By Amelia Urry
Bernard Carvalho might be the least jaded politician in the United States of America right now.…Welcome to Paradise: Batteries Now Included
Aug 8, 2017, 3:00 am By Amelia Urry
When people ask Luke Evslin why he decided to live off the grid, he starts with the time he almost…The real hero of Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’ isn’t Al Gore
Aug 7, 2017, 6:21 pm By Eric Holthaus
I’ll be honest, I greeted the prospect of a new Al Gore movie, more than 10 years after the…A “mini-Katrina” flooded parts of New Orleans.
Aug 7, 2017, 5:36 pm By Eric Holthaus
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in one neighborhood on Saturday during a rainstorm so severe that it…Apparently, “weather extremes” is the new “climate change.”
Aug 7, 2017, 4:42 pm By Manola Secaira
At least, that’s what the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is telling its employees. In…We know more about other planets’ moons than our own ocean floor
Aug 7, 2017, 4:03 pm By Paul Tullis
This story was originally published by Oceans Deeply. For important news about seafloor mapping,…As Keystone XL’s fate is decided, activists descend on Nebraska.
Aug 7, 2017, 3:13 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
The Nebraska Public Service Commission is holding hearings this week to review the proposed pipeline…Pruitt is on a deregulation spree, but legal backlash is coming
Aug 6, 2017, 6:00 am By Bethany A. Davis Noll
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…Climate change is turning cities into harsh, sweltering hotspots
Aug 5, 2017, 6:00 am By Brian Kahn
Tina Johnson has a sense of place. She’s a fourth-generation New Yorker who lives in the same…The Pacific Northwest’s fiery week warns of hotter times to come
Aug 4, 2017, 4:40 pm By Eric Holthaus
It’s feeling a little apocalypse-y in the Pacific Northwest this week. With excessive heat…Nothing a beer can’t fix?
Aug 4, 2017, 3:59 pm By Emma Foehringer Merchant
After reports of tension between Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Interior Secretary…Need more banjo in your life? Of course you do.
Aug 4, 2017, 3:00 pm By Grist staff
Guess what — Pickathon is back! Your favorite sustainable music festival is streaming live from…Now you can plant a tree to offset Trump’s climate policies.
Aug 4, 2017, 2:52 pm By Manola Secaira
Three environmental activists in New Zealand have launched a “Trump Forest” to plant trees in…Killing the Clean Power Plan is harder than Trump thinks
Aug 4, 2017, 1:29 pm By Rebecca Leber
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate…The Daily Show took on coal country’s efforts to move past coal.
Aug 3, 2017, 7:58 pm By Abigail Bechtel
Correspondent Hasan Minhaj took a trip to Kentucky to talk to a few locals in a segment that aired…Just trading beef for beans could get the United States near its CO2 goal.
Aug 3, 2017, 5:41 pm By Nathanael Johnson
That’s the conclusion of a study led by Helen Harwatt, an environmental nutrition researcher at…
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