For a struggling Iowa ranch, the government shutdown may be the last straw
Oct 31, 2025, 5:50 pm By Ayurella Horn-Muller
Last June, record flooding swept through the rural town of Rock Valley, Iowa. As the wall of water…‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Oct 31, 2025, 5:31 pm By Zoya Teirstein
As world leaders prepare to meet for the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, or…Trump officials say, ‘Alaska is open for business.’ So far, no one’s buying.
Oct 31, 2025, 4:45 am By Lois Parshley
As Kristen Moreland waited for the livestream to buffer, her thoughts drifted to the years she’d…Good news! These ‘positive tipping points’ will help save the world
Oct 31, 2025, 2:00 am By Matt Simon
Earlier this month, scientists announced that humanity has kicked off the first major “tipping…This obscure Georgia election is about so much more than your power bill
Oct 30, 2025, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR…This obscure Georgia election is about so much more than your power bill
Oct 30, 2025, 4:45 am By Emily Jones
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR…Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet
Oct 29, 2025, 10:00 am By Matt Simon
As the end of 2025 approaches, regular folk take stock of the past year, and maybe ponder their New…Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
Oct 29, 2025, 5:35 am By Nick Bowlin, The Frontier
In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the Oklahoma agency that regulates oil and…Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.
Oct 29, 2025, 4:30 am By Sophie Hurwitz
As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a…The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom
Oct 28, 2025, 10:00 am By Grist Creative
A new kind of gold rush is sweeping the West, and this time the prize isn’t minerals but…In New York, a pipeline proposal that just won’t die
Oct 28, 2025, 4:45 am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
They don’t build many basements in Breezy Point anymore, but Ed Power’s got one. Breezy Point is…What we lost when cars won
Oct 28, 2025, 4:30 am By Kate Yoder
When automobiles first started tearing through American streets a century ago, they weren’t…How Hurricane Melissa got so dangerous so fast
Oct 27, 2025, 5:17 pm By Matt Simon
History is unfolding in the Atlantic Ocean right now. Hurricane Melissa has spun up into an…Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff
Oct 27, 2025, 4:45 am By Tik Root
The city of Clyde sits about two hours west of Fort Worth on the plains of north Texas. It gets its…Trump targets federal employees working on conservation and environmental protection
Oct 26, 2025, 9:00 am By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
The Trump administration moved last Monday to slash federal jobs across two key environmental and…Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Oct 25, 2025, 9:00 am By Helena Horton, The Guardian
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more…Where the Appalachian brook trout vanish, something human goes missing, too
Oct 24, 2025, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
On a startlingly beautiful day high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Thomas Champeau waded into…Fossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.
Oct 24, 2025, 4:30 am By Rebecca Egan McCarthy
Every year, United Nations member states gather together at the Conference of the Parties, better…Why one of the world’s greenest countries is betting its future on oil
Oct 23, 2025, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis…The entire world was ready to reduce shipping emissions. Then Trump stepped in.
Oct 23, 2025, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
With relatively little fanfare, the first-ever global carbon tax was poised to be formally adopted…
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