Climate change fueled last year’s extreme wildfires — some more than others
Aug 15, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Starting in March 2023, Canada burned for eight months, with flames licking all 13 provinces and territories in the country’s deadliest ever fire season. At least 150,000 people evacuated, and tens of millions across North America were affected by the…Humans know very little about the deep sea. That may not stop us from mining it.
Aug 15, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
In Kingston, Jamaica, by secret ballot, an election was held earlier this month. The lands whose governance was at stake are vaster than any nation, and it’s possible the consequences of the vote will be felt for eons. More than half of the world’s ocean…How greener schoolyards benefit kids — and the whole community
Aug 14, 2024, 11:06 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight When Lois Brink’s kids were in elementary school, she remembers being struck by how uninviting their schoolyard was. She described it as “scorched earth” — little more than a dirt field coated in “I don’t know how many decades of weed…Workers across the US rally after string of heat-related deaths
Aug 14, 2024, 4:45 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
For the last two years, Cecilia Ortiz has worked as a passenger service agent at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. She typically has to walk 10 to 15 miles a day, up and down ramps, pushing heavy wheelchairs and carrying passengers’ luggage. This…How food banks prevented 1.8 million metric tons of carbon emissions last year
Aug 14, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
The latest annual impact report from the Global Foodbanking Network — a nonprofit that works with regional food banks in more than 50 countries to fight hunger — found that its member organizations provided 1.7 billion meals to more than 40 million…The American West’s megafires are silencing birds
Aug 14, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Wildfire smoke, which contains harmful particulate matter and toxic gases, is widely understood to be an acute threat to human health. As wildfires become more frequent and intense with worsening climate change, this knowledge has only become more widespread.…How the Marshall Fire sparked a political transformation in Colorado
Aug 13, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics, and is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. As the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Marshall Fire approached, Kyle Brown…Politicians don’t get how popular climate action is. That’s a problem.
Aug 13, 2024, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
When the New Orleans City Council debated a proposal for a $210 million gas-fired power plant in 2017, something felt off about the public meetings in City Hall. At one hearing, dozens of people wearing orange shirts clapped when a speaker said something…The state rep who sparked Colorado’s fire recovery
Aug 12, 2024, 6:35 pm By Jake Bittle
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter about how disasters are reshaping our politics. I’m Jake Bittle, a reporter for Grist, and I’ll be writing this newsletter along with my colleague, Zoya Teirstein. It’s almost a…We’re in debt to the Earth. How can we repay it?
Aug 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
On Christmas Day, 1971, for the first time in Homo sapiens’ roughly 300,000 years of hobbling about, humanity’s demands on the Earth exceeded what the planet can provide in a year. That practice has continued, and worsened, for the last half century. Since…Minnesota settles ‘deceptive environmental marketing’ lawsuit over ‘recycling’ plastic bags
Aug 11, 2024, 9:00 am By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News
Walmart and Reynolds Consumer Products have agreed to stop selling certain plastic bags in Minnesota for two and a half years, after the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, argued in court that the companies had falsely marketed them as recyclable.…Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid
9:00am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The U.S. power grid is overburdened and under-resourced — and the Biden administration just announced a major investment aimed at helping solve those problems. The Department of Energy has offered $2.2 billion to eight projects across 18 states that…How the 2024 Paris Olympics handled the heat — and didn’t
Fri 5:38pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Curled up on a small, white rectangle of fabric on the grass by a park bench in Paris, Italian swimmer Thomas Ceccon inadvertently took the internet by storm simply by sleeping outside. The moment, posted to social media on Monday by a fellow Olympic athlete,…On a rural Hawaiian island, solar provides a path to energy sovereignty
Fri 4:45am By Naoki Nitta
Like many homesteaders on the island of Molokaʻi, Kailana Place grew up off-grid, on 40 acres of family land designated for Native Hawaiians. Living in repurposed school buses surrounded by fields of red volcanic clay and kiawe trees “was a glamping…Farmworker advocates celebrate rare EPA ban of toxic pesticide
Fri 4:30am By Joseph Winters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an emergency order this week suspending all use of an herbicide known to cause irreversible developmental damage to human fetuses. The now-banned pesticide — dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate, or…States want to clean up leaky oil wells. Well-intentioned laws are getting in the way.
Fri 4:15am By Naveena Sadasivam
An estimated 880,000 abandoned oil and gas wells dot the United States. These orphaned wells, some of which were deserted as long as a century ago, can leak toxic oil and gas into the groundwater and air. They also emit methane, the planet-warming primary…Carbon credits are supposed to funnel money to poor countries. Do they?
Aug 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Proponents of the voluntary carbon market say it’s a mechanism not only to advance sustainability goals, but also to funnel much-needed cash to some of the world’s poorest countries. The idea is that companies seeking to “offset” their climate…Indigenous youth are at the center of major climate lawsuits. Here’s why they’re suing.
Aug 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
On Aug. 8, 2023, 13-year-old Kaliko was getting ready for her hula class at her mother’s house in West Maui. The power was out, and she heard there was a wildfire in Lāhainā, where her dad lived, but she didn’t think much of it. Wildfires happened all…High-tech textiles can protect workers from the heat — but not from their bosses
Aug 8, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Nick Lubecki has been an urban farmer in Pittsburgh for the last 15 years. The heat has noticeably intensified over that time, with back-to-back summers of sweltering temperatures affecting when he harvests produce at Braddock Farm, a small urban plot nestled…How outdoor programs are adapting to the challenge of extreme weather
Aug 7, 2024, 10:49 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “How can healing our relationship to the planet help us heal our relationships with ourselves?” — Ki’Amber Thompson The spotlight The outdoors can be a healing place. Spending time in nature can inspire wonder, confer physical and mental…
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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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