From the cradle: How kids, newborns, and the unborn jump-started South Korea’s historic climate lawsuit
Sep 6, 2024, 4:15 am By Naveena Sadasivam
Choi Hee-woo was a 20-week-old embryo when he joined a landmark climate lawsuit in South Korea. At…As Pennsylvania chooses the next president, its unions are choosing clean energy
Sep 6, 2024, 4:00 am By Gautama Mehta
The U.S. presidential campaigns both have their eyes on the critical swing state of Pennsylvania —…Biden’s FEMA director tried to fix the agency. Did she succeed?
Sep 4, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
When President Joe Biden nominated Deanne Criswell to serve as the director of the Federal Emergency…What back-to-back storms did to Lake Charles, Louisiana
Sep 3, 2024, 9:00 am By Zoya Teirstein
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and today we’re going to…Can the US census keep up with climate-driven displacement?
Sep 3, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
It’s been four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5…As ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, can an artificial barrier save it?
Sep 2, 2024, 9:00 am By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
They call it the Doomsday Glacier. A chunk of Antarctic ice as big as Florida and two thirds of a…Midwest grid operators submit $1.7 billion plan to build cross-border power lines
Sep 1, 2024, 9:00 am By Jeff St. John, Canary Media
The two grid operators providing power to the Midwestern U.S. are proposing to build $1.7 billion…GOP-run districts get 85% of the benefit of climate law. Some still hate it.
Aug 31, 2024, 9:00 am By Kristi E. Swartz, Floodlight
Ajulo Othow started solar and storage company EnerWealth Solutions seven years ago to get small…How climate change is expanding the reach of a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness
Aug 30, 2024, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
A 41-year-old man in New Hampshire died last week after contracting a rare mosquito-borne illness…NYC’s food delivery workers are sweltering in the heat — and demanding more protection
Aug 30, 2024, 4:30 am By Frida Garza
New York City, the city that never sleeps, is also an incredibly hard place to take a break — if…States are falling behind in using IRA funding to advance climate action
Aug 30, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
When President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, into law two years ago, a…Voices of Vogtle: Four oral histories
Aug 29, 2024, 9:37 am By Lyndsey Gilpin
As part of Grist and WABE’s yearlong collaboration to demystify the Georgia Public Service…Amazon says it’s going ‘water positive’ — but there’s a problem
Aug 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Jake Bittle
Earlier this year, the e-commerce corporation Amazon secured approval to open two new data centers…A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from shellfish waste.
Aug 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
This time of year, bushels of rhubarb, potatoes, and lettuce can be harvested in abundance at The…Oakland’s new school buses don’t just reduce pollution — they double as giant batteries
Aug 29, 2024, 4:15 am By Matt Simon
The wheels on this bus do indeed go round and round. Its wipers swish. And its horn beeps. Hidden in…As climate change worsens, deadly prison heat is increasingly an everywhere problem
Aug 29, 2024, 4:00 am By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center,…Methane leaks are a climate problem. These satellites could help find them.
Aug 28, 2024, 10:59 am By Syris Valentine
The vision “It doesn’t matter how many thermographers we have, boots on the ground, satellites…The forgotten fight to ban gas-powered cars in the 1960s
Aug 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Scott W. Stern
Nicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a…Lessons from Houston’s Katrina response
9:00am By Jake Bittle
Hello everyone, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going…Why Mississippi coal is powering Georgia’s data centers
4:45am By Emily Jones
Last October, Georgia Power approached regulators with what it said was a crisis. Unless they did…
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