How ‘loving corrections’ could transform our relationships with one another — and the Earth
Aug 21, 2024, 10:56 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “I foresee a movement with a wide stance, a strong connection to ancestral wisdom, a fortified sense of self that inspires all who see and touch and join it. We spend our time transforming ourselves and our relationships to earth and each other.…Climate change is messing with city sewers — and the solutions are even messier
Aug 21, 2024, 4:45 am By Angelica Ang
At the end of July 2023, 3.07 inches of rain fell on Boston in a single day. The city’s sewer systems were overwhelmed, resulting in a discharge of sewage into Boston Harbor that prompted a public health warning. The summer of 2023 would turn out to be…Corporate climate targets are a mess. Could tracking ‘spheres of influence’ help?
Aug 21, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
In order to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, scientists agree that the world needs to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by midcentury. How to get there is a more contentious question. So far, the dominant strategy has been for companies,…Here’s how much cropland could be freed up if Americans ate half as much meat
Aug 21, 2024, 4:15 am By Frida Garza
A new report finds that the United States could more efficiently produce food if half the country’s protein supply came from plant-based or alternative proteins rather than meat or dairy. The analysis demonstrates how a shift toward a plant-based diet…Your guide to a disaster-prone election year
Aug 20, 2024, 9:00 am By Jake Bittle
Hello and welcome to week three of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m Jake Bittle. Hurricane Michael tore across the Florida Panhandle as a Category 5 storm less than four weeks before the pivotal…How do you reduce the carbon footprint of a political convention? One donation at a time.
Aug 20, 2024, 4:45 am By Juanpablo Ramirez-FrancoThis coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Climate change and sustainability are on the agenda for this week’s Democratic National Convention, which started…Your guide to voting after a disaster
Aug 20, 2024, 4:31 am By Lyndsey Gilpin
In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Louisiana experienced a parade of devastating hurricanes. On August 27, Hurricane Laura hit the state’s southwest coast as a Category 4 storm, bringing winds up to 150 miles per hour, extreme…Extreme weather 101: Your guide to staying prepared and informed
Aug 20, 2024, 4:30 am By Lyndsey Gilpin
No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area, causing damage to homes, power outages, and dangerous or deadly conditions. If you’re on the coast, it may be a hurricane; in the Midwest or South, a tornado; in the West, wildfires; and as we’ve…How can you tell if soil is healthy? Just listen to it.
Aug 20, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Think back to the last concert you went to. Now replace the music that rang through the venue with an erratic series of pops, muffled staccatos, distorted taps, and sudden clicks. Not one sound is quite distinguishable from the other, all blending together in…Breaking down a Georgia Power bill
Aug 19, 2024, 9:46 am By Sam Worley
Carolyn Yeago couldn’t figure it out. The Atlanta resident is a biomedical scientist, and no stranger to complex problems. But one thing she didn’t know how to calculate was her Georgia Power bill. Yeago is on Georgia Power’s Overnight Advantage plan,…Recent Supreme Court decisions are already slowing climate progress
Aug 19, 2024, 4:30 am By Akielly Hu
During its last session, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dealt blow after blow to federal agencies’ authority to draft and enforce policies, including those aimed at mitigating climate change. Its decisions have already created upheaval for…Research shows that what you call climate change doesn’t matter much
Aug 19, 2024, 4:15 am By Kate Yoder
Five years ago, when young people started skipping school on Fridays to protest rising carbon emissions, some climate advocates sensed a disconnect. The words commonly used to describe how fossil fuels were heating the planet — climate change, global warming…The rural Americans too poor for federal flood protections
Aug 18, 2024, 9:00 am By Claire Carlson, The Daily Yonder
On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.” It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late July, two years ago in rural Pike County, Kentucky, and rain had been…For Florida corals, unprecedented marine heat prompts new restoration strategy — on shore
Aug 17, 2024, 9:00 am By Amy Green, Inside Climate News
Tucked away in an office park hundreds of miles from the southeast Florida coast where North America’s only barrier reef is at dire risk, a collection of brain corals performed a once-a-year feat — producing a constellation of egg sacks, each a bundle of…Hurricane Ernesto arrived way early. It’s an ominous sign.
Aug 16, 2024, 2:35 pm By Matt Simon
After unleashing widespread flooding and knocking out electricity for half of Puerto Rico, this season’s third hurricane, Ernesto, has turned north, and is approaching Bermuda. In an average Atlantic season, the third hurricane doesn’t spin up until…The US says it now supports a more ambitious plastics treaty. Industry groups are furious.
Aug 16, 2024, 12:44 pm By Joseph Winters
In a significant reversal, the Biden administration announced during two closed-door meetings this week that U.S. negotiators will support limits on plastic production as part of the United Nations’ global plastics treaty. The news was first reported by…Vegan cheese that tastes like cheese? These startups may have cracked the code.
Aug 16, 2024, 4:45 am By Caroline Saunders
In a video uploaded to YouTube last year, home cook and food influencer Alexa Santos scores a wheel of brie, drizzles it with honey, and flips it into a hot cast-iron pan. “Cheese is the main reason why I can’t go vegan,” she explains before baking the…Canada’s first ‘prisoner of conscience’ is an Indigenous land defender
Aug 16, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
In 2019, construction began on a natural gas pipeline that would cut through the unceded homelands of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in western Canada. Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors were forbidden from coming near the construction area operated by…Two lawsuits challenge the EPA’s regulation of ethylene oxide
Aug 16, 2024, 4:00 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized new regulations to govern the more than 80 industrial facilities across the nation that use ethylene oxide, a highly potent and toxic chemical, to sterilize medical equipment. The rule was…Most Americans don’t know the country’s biggest climate law helps the climate
Aug 15, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Let’s say you had the chance to name the biggest effort to tackle climate change in United States history. What would you call it? Democrats got that rare opportunity in August 2022, two years ago this week, when they passed legislation putting nearly $369…
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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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