Most Americans don’t know the country’s biggest climate law helps the climate
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Let’s say you had the chance to name the biggest effort to tackle climate change in United States…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…Biden administration announces more than $2 billion in grants to boost US power grid
Aug 10, 2024, 9:00 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The U.S. power grid is overburdened and under-resourced — and the Biden administration just…How the 2024 Paris Olympics handled the heat — and didn’t
Aug 9, 2024, 5:38 pm By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
Curled up on a small, white rectangle of fabric on the grass by a park bench in Paris, Italian…On a rural Hawaiian island, solar provides a path to energy sovereignty
Aug 9, 2024, 4:45 am By Naoki Nitta
Like many homesteaders on the island of Molokaʻi, Kailana Place grew up off-grid, on 40 acres of…Farmworker advocates celebrate rare EPA ban of toxic pesticide
Aug 9, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Winters
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an emergency order this week suspending all use…States want to clean up leaky oil wells. Well-intentioned laws are getting in the way.
Aug 9, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
An estimated 880,000 abandoned oil and gas wells dot the United States. These orphaned wells, some…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…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…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…
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