Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant
Aug 7, 2024, 4:45 am By Syris Valentine
On a blustery day in early March, the who’s who of methane research gathered at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara, California. Dozens of people crammed into a NASA mission control center. Others watched from cars pulled alongside roads just…New fossils reveal an ice-free Greenland. It’s bad news for sea level rise.
Aug 7, 2024, 4:15 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Late on a Saturday afternoon in June 2022, Andrew Christ was on the verge of a discovery at the University of Vermont. A postdoctoral researcher studying the interactions between glaciers and landscapes at the time, Christ was rinsing a sample taken from the…Rez dogs are feeling the heat from climate change
Aug 7, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Julie Cassadore was stunned when the wildfire ripped through the San Carlos Apache Reservation this July. “The whole downtown was on fire,” she said. “It was just huge, huge, huge clouds of black smoke, and you could hear what sounded like propane tanks…The climate vice president? What Tim Walz brings to the Harris ticket.
Aug 6, 2024, 4:19 pm By Zoya Teirstein
Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, as her running mate following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race last month. Walz’s recent comments about former President Donald Trump and…Can chief heat officers protect US cities from extreme heat?
Aug 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics. Summertime heat in the United States has always put human health at risk. But the past few years have marked a departure from the…Disaster on the ballot
Aug 6, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome to the first issue of State of Emergency, a limited-run newsletter from Grist. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and I’ll be co-reporting this project with my colleague Jake Bittle. We’re glad you’re here. Data shows that while some voters…The delight — and power — of unplanned urban green spaces
Aug 6, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
You may not have noticed it, but a butterfly or bee certainly has. It’s a strip of dirt and grass between a sidewalk and a street, or an empty lot, or greenery running along a railway. Compared to an official city park, these “informal green spaces”…The lost history of what Americans knew about climate change in the 1960s
Aug 5, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
To judge by recent Supreme Court decisions, the world didn’t know much about climate change a half century ago. In 2007, when the court ruled that the Clean Air Act of 1970 gave the Environmental Protection Agency the flexibility to regulate carbon dioxide…A year after the worst wildfire in modern US history, the people of Maui try to heal
Aug 5, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita Hofschneider
The one-story home 100 yards from Lāhainā Harbor where Tiare Lawrence grew up was a typical Hawaiʻi plantation home, a historic architectural style with a wide-hipped roof, a wooden light blue exterior, and a purple bougainvillea bush in the front yard.…Wildfires will put even more pressure on the country’s housing crisis
Aug 4, 2024, 9:00 am By Li Zhou, Vox
The Park Fire, a wildfire in Northern California spanning over 399,000 acres, has rapidly become the fourth largest in the state’s history, prompting evacuations in four counties. The fire, which officials say was started by arson, has grown in the past week…Extreme heat is making schools hotter — and learning harder
Aug 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Jessica Kutz, The 19th
Angela Girol has been teaching fourth grade in Pittsburgh for over two decades. Over the years she’s noticed a change at her school: It’s getting hotter. Some days temperatures reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit in her classroom which, like many on the East…Permitting reform is back. Is the latest deal worth it?
Aug 2, 2024, 4:00 am By Lylla Younes
To advance his climate agenda, President Biden has prioritized one scheme above all others: infrastructure subsidies. The massive spending packages his administration pushed through Congress over the past four years — the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and…Is it possible to build a dream city from scratch?
Aug 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In 2018, a company began quietly buying up some $900 million worth of land from farmers in Solano County, California, an area just north of the Bay Area. As the parcel ballooned to more than 60,000 acres, their motivations remained a mystery — stoking unease…Heat pumps are expensive. What if billionaires bought them for everyone?
Aug 1, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump, the ingenious appliance that extracts heat from even frigid winter air to warm a home, then reverses in the summer to act…Indigenous geography could change how we relate to the Earth
Jul 31, 2024, 10:59 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The vision “Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try and say. You can uplift and amplify that ongoing relationship with the land here and now.” — Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, PhD The spotlight Climate change…‘Twisters’ is a climate movie, but not a very good one
Jul 31, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
The words “climate change” make no appearance whatsoever in the new film Twisters. This makes political sense: For a blockbuster designed to maximize the broad appeal of its computer-generated thrills, a direct climate tie-in might have been box office…What would a Harris presidency mean for the plastics crisis?
Jul 31, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
Among the reasons Republicans think Vice President Kamala Harris is unfit for the country’s highest office: She “wants to get rid of plastic straws.” That’s according to Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former president Donald Trump’s reelection…How Octavia Butler’s 1993 book ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted our climate reality
Jul 31, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
On July 20, 2024, Lauren Olamina turned 15. Or, at least, she did in Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The 1993 dystopian classic recounts the life and times of a Black girl who shares the pain of others. Lauren lives with this burden in a version of…California’s Park Fire is spawning its own smoke thunderclouds
Jul 30, 2024, 1:27 pm By Matt Simon
With 600 square miles burned so far, the Park Fire is already one of California’s biggest wildfires ever — and it’s still far from contained. Driven by strong winds, the blaze has chewed through desiccated plants, spewing smoke high into the atmosphere.…‘A matter of life and death’: How disaster response endangers US farmworkers
Jul 30, 2024, 8:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
When Hurricane Idalia struck Florida last summer, a tree fell straight through a trailer occupied by a migrant-farmworker family in Hamilton County. They couldn’t afford to move, even temporarily, so the family of six just picked up the things they could…
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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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