The surprisingly simple way cities could save people from extreme heat
Jul 16, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
The city is a growing paradox. Humanity needs its many efficiencies: People living more densely and taking up less land — with easy access to decarbonized public transportation — collaborating and innovating as urbanites have always done. But as the…The siting of an offshore wind port raises new conflicts in Maine
Jul 15, 2024, 4:30 am By Annie Ropeik, Energy News Network
Ron Huber rifled through a thick folder full of decades of state environmental records outside a community hall in the tiny coastal Maine town of Searsport. For the longtime local conservation activist, the scene inside was a familiar one: Dozens of neighbors,…The race to save glacial ice records before they melt away
Jul 14, 2024, 9:00 am By Nicola Jones, Yale Environment 360
When Margit Schwikowski helicoptered up to Switzerland’s Corbassière glacier in 2020, it was clear that things weren’t right. “It was very warm. I mean, we were at 4,100 meters and it should be sub-zero temperatures,” she says. Instead, the team…In a rare court action, an Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme temperatures
Jul 13, 2024, 9:00 am By Victoria St. Martin, Inside Climate News
Northwest Oregon had never seen anything like it. Over the course of three days in June 2021, Multnomah County — the Emerald State’s most populous county, which rests in the swayback along Oregon’s northern border — recorded highs of 108, 112, and 116…When is it safe to burn fields? In Thailand, farmers can turn to a new app to check.
Jul 12, 2024, 4:45 am By Zach Bernsten
On a warm spring day in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a thick blanket of gray smog covers the city. The surrounding Khun Tan mountains are obscured by a dense haze, and residents are urged to stay indoors. Outside of an unassuming government building on the outskirts…The $1.7 billion bet on American-made EVs, explained by the Secretary of Energy
Jul 12, 2024, 4:30 am By Matt Simon
Along with apple pie, baseball, and tipping, the automobile is classically American. But when it comes to the 21st century passenger car, automakers in the United States — save for Tesla — have been playing catchup, scrambling to counter the rise of…Timeline: The Georgia Public Service Commission’s key decisions
Jul 11, 2024, 7:00 am By Lyndsey Gilpin
This is part of a collaboration with Grist and WABE to demystify the Georgia Public Service Commission, the small but powerful state-elected board that makes critical decisions about everything from raising electricity bills to developing renewable…Meet the jacked vegan strength athletes defying stereotypes
Jul 11, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
Over the past two years, Gigi Balsamico has won first place at more than a dozen strongman competitions in the eastern United States: Maidens of Might, Rebel Queen, War of the North, Third Monkey Throwdown. These events typically involve six to eight…Homeowners associations in Michigan now have to allow rooftop solar
Jul 11, 2024, 4:30 am By Izzy Ross
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. People who want to install solar panels on their roofs have to consider a lot: sunlight, cost, and coordinating with contractors and utilities.…Dangerous heat grips the US for another record-shattering summer
3:01pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
From coast to coast, heat has enveloped the United States for nearly a week, blushing weather maps with shades of red. On July Fourth, roughly half of all Americans were under extreme heat alerts. The trend continued through the holiday and into the next week,…Can a new version of Catan, the cult-favorite board game, make climate change fun to talk about?
11:40am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
The spotlight On a balmy Seattle evening in June, four climate journalists walk into a bar. I’m one of them, with a cardboard box — the reason for our gathering — tucked under one arm. Inside it is the just-released climate twist on a classic board game,…FEMA will now consider climate change when it rebuilds after floods
5:00am By Jake Bittle
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency spends millions of dollars to help rebuild schools and hospitals after a hurricane, it tries to make the community more resilient than it was before the storm. If the agency pays to rebuild a school or a town hall,…How the last queen of Hawaiʻi is influencing the debate over deep-sea mining
4:45am By Anita Hofschneider
In 1895, Queen Liliʻuokalani spent nearly eight months imprisoned in an upstairs bedroom in Iolani Palace in Honolulu. She had been put there by American businessmen backed by the United States military who had overthrown the Hawaiian Kingdom, an…‘Sip, return, repeat’: How this California city is trying to normalize reusable cups
4:30am By Joseph Winters
Next month, more than 30 chain restaurants and locally owned coffee shops and eateries in Petaluma, California, will begin providing beverages in reusable cups by default as part of a first-of-its-kind pilot program meant to reduce pollution from single-use…Climate change has forced America’s oldest Black town to higher ground
4:15am By Jake Bittle
Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest community in the United States founded by formerly enslaved people, has been trapped in a cycle of disaster and disinvestment for decades. The town of around 1,200 people sits on a plain below the banks of the Tar River,…Taking a train during a heat wave? Watch out for ‘sun kinks’
Tue 4:45am By Matt Simon
One of the iconic sensory experiences of riding a train is actually the sound of ingenuity. As steel railroad tracks heat up, they grow: 1,800 feet of rail expands by more than an inch for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit of temperature increase. So rails used to…What is a liquid? Utilities sue to avoid coal ash cleanup — and lose
Tue 4:30am By Gautama Mehta
Across America, millions of tons of toxic waste are sitting in pits next to coal plants. But whether they will get cleaned up has come down to a legal debate over the definitions of words. In 2015, following a pair of disastrous spills at coal plants in…Farmers and EU face off over bogs, Ireland’s largest carbon store
Jul 8, 2024, 4:45 am By Dawn Attride
On Ireland’s wet and windy Achill Island, local sheep farmer Stephen Gavin, 64, has been harvesting peat from the wetlands near his home since April. The unmistakable smell of the bog’s sweet earthiness hangs in the air as Gavin cuts rectangular sods of…Colorado’s dirty secret: A $500 billion mining industry built on Indigenous land
Jul 8, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
Skiing, hiking, and other outdoor recreational pastimes have lent Colorado a woodsy — and environmentally friendly — reputation. This image is at odds with the state’s first and biggest industry: mineral extraction. From 1858 to 2022, mineral extraction…Barbara Kingsolver on climate change: ‘Words are what I have to offer’
Jul 8, 2024, 4:15 am By Kate Yoder
Barbara Kingsolver has been weaving her concern about the environment into her books ever since she started writing novels in 1988. Her 2012 novel Flight Behavior explored how climate change might affect the monarch butterfly, and the 2007 nonfiction work…
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Thu 4:30am By Anita Hofschneider
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