This spring, DC-area students are planting native flowers — and activating ‘the solarpunk imagination’
May 1, 2024, 11:24 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight Tending a garden is about as hands-on as climate solutions get. On a basic level, putting plants in the ground helps sequester carbon. Vegetation can reduce stress and tension for the humans around it, and it provides habitat and sustenance for…UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’
May 1, 2024, 11:06 am By Joseph Winters
Negotiators wrapped up the fourth round of formal discussions over the United Nations’ global plastics treaty early on Tuesday morning, inching closer to a final agreement that’s intended to “end plastic pollution.” Delegates made important progress…What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?
May 1, 2024, 4:45 am By Joseph Winters
For several months last year, patrons of a Seattle coffee shop called Tailwind Cafe had the option of ordering their Americanos and lattes in returnable metal to-go cups. Customers could simply borrow a cup from Tailwind, go on their way, and then at some…EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late
May 1, 2024, 4:30 am By Gautama Mehta
Last week, the EPA released a suite of long-awaited rules meant to cut down the carbon that the U.S. emits when generating electricity. The rules primarily target existing coal plants and new natural gas facilities, in many cases requiring dramatic emissions…The problem with forcing people back to the office? All the carbon emissions.
Apr 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with Fast Company. When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during COVID-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent…Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
Apr 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal fluctuations in global weather patterns can explain. When the seas…The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.
Apr 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
After three decades of work, advocates for developing countries scored a major win at last year’s United Nations climate change conference in Dubai: World leaders unanimously agreed to set up a climate reparations fund. As the planet warms, the poorest…US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.
Apr 29, 2024, 4:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
In 2016, Tony Spaniola received a notice informing him that his family shouldn’t drink water drawn from the well at his lake home in Oscoda, Michigan. Over the course of several decades, the Air Force had showered thousands of gallons of firefighting foam…A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues
Apr 28, 2024, 9:00 am By Adam Mahoney, Capital B
This story was originally published by Capital B. At the edge of Saginaw Street, a hand-painted sign is etched into a deserted storefront. “Please help, God. Clean-up Flint.” Behind it, the block tells the story of a city 10 years removed from the start of…A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it
Apr 27, 2024, 9:00 am By Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Blake Dollier spoke excitedly as he watched the construction crews pulverize concrete along a quarter-mile stretch of U.S. Highway…A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization
Apr 26, 2024, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
In the summer of 2022, heavy rainfall damaged a water treatment plant in the city of Jackson, Mississippi, precipitating a high-profile public health crisis. The Republican Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency, as thousands of residents were told…Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
Apr 26, 2024, 4:30 am By Joseph Lee
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. Last September, Nicaraguan state security forces arrived at Indigenous Miskitu…Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?
Apr 26, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
In Washington, a dozen dams dot the Columbia River — that mighty waterway carved through the state by a sequence of prehistoric superfloods. Between those dams and the hundreds of others that plug the rivers and tributaries that lace the region, including…Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law
Apr 25, 2024, 4:45 am By Lylla Younes
For much of its 53-year history, the Environmental Protection Agency let civil rights complaints languish. From Flint, Michigan to the industrial corridors of the Deep South, communities attempting to use federal civil rights law to clean up the pollution in…The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute
Apr 24, 2024, 2:00 pm By Joseph Winters
The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. That seemingly obvious, yet previously unproven, point, is the main takeaway from a first-of-its-kind study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. Researchers from a dozen…On the agenda this Earth Day: A global treaty to end plastic pollution
Apr 24, 2024, 11:25 am By Joseph Winters
The spotlight Hey there, Looking Forward fam. Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely greenwashy PR pitches. Each April, I (and every…As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive
Apr 24, 2024, 4:45 am By Laura Hautala
Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard. Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or shrub is famously drought-tolerant, with some…How should Georgia elect key utility regulators? US Supreme Court asked to weigh in
Apr 24, 2024, 4:30 am By Emily Jones
This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist, a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. In a case that could impact other lawsuits on voting rights, Black voters…From Australia to the Arctic, young Indigenous changemakers speak out
Apr 24, 2024, 4:15 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. More than 20 years ago, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous…Indigenous advocates at the UN say the green transition is neither clean nor just
Apr 23, 2024, 4:45 am By Anita Hofschneider
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. For years, Maureen Penjueli, who is Indigenous iTaukei from Fiji, has watched…
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