With energy demand surging, utilities fall back on their old standby: Fossil fuels.
Mar 29, 2024, 4:45 am By Emily JonesThis 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. Georgia is enjoying an economic boom. Lured by tax breaks, high-tech data…Puerto Rico declares an emergency as cases of dengue fever spike
Mar 29, 2024, 4:30 am By Zoya Teirstein
Puerto Rico declared a public health emergency this week as cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne infection, rise precipitously across the United States territory. In the emergency order, the commonwealth’s department of health said it…US landfills emit far more methane than previously known
Mar 28, 2024, 2:00 pm By Sachi Mulkey
A landfill is a place of perpetual motion, where mountains of garbage can rise in days and crews race to contain the influx of ever more trash. Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. On…Elizabeth Kolbert wants us to rethink the stories we tell about climate change
Mar 28, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
Why does it feel like the world has made so much progress on addressing global warming, but also none at all? In H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z, Elizabeth Kolbert, a longtime environmental journalist, considers hard questions like this one. Using…As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts
Mar 27, 2024, 11:49 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined. Within walking distance of the Grist office in downtown Seattle, there’s a pinball museum, an NFT museum, a Jimi Hendrix-inspired museum of pop culture, and…This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading
Mar 27, 2024, 4:45 am By Robert Langellier
This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west…IPLC: The acronym that is keeping Indigenous advocates up at night
Mar 27, 2024, 4:30 am By Anita HofschneiderRoberto Borrero will never forget standing in the United Nations General Assembly on the day that countries voted to approve the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It was September 13, 2007 in New York City, and Borrero had spent years roaming…How bad will heatflation get?
Mar 27, 2024, 4:15 am By Kate YoderSometimes climate change appears where you least expect it — like the grocery store. Food prices have climbed 25 percent over the past four years, and Americans have been shocked by the growing cost of staples like beef, sugar, and citrus. While many…‘Reef stars’ restored Indonesia’s blast-damaged corals in just 4 years
Mar 26, 2024, 4:15 am By Syris Valentine
Out among a scattering of islands spilled like beads into the Indonesian shallows, an extended experiment in coral restoration has revealed something marvelous: With a tender touch and a community to care for it, a reef can fully recover from the devastation…Florida is about to erase climate change from most of its laws
Mar 25, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
In Florida, the effects of climate change are hard to ignore, no matter your politics. It’s the hottest state — Miami spent a record 46 days above a heat index of 100 degrees last summer — and many homes and businesses are clustered along beachfront…In Utah, climate concerns are now motivating candidates
Mar 24, 2024, 9:00 am By Marcus Baram, Capital and Main
This story was originally published by Capital and Main. Driving on Interstate 215 south of Salt Lake City in late January, I couldn’t help but notice the bumper stickers on the pickup truck in front of me. One featured a rattlesnake and the classic motto…How Biden’s infrastructure plan created a ‘climate time bomb’ in Black neighborhoods
Mar 23, 2024, 9:00 am By Adam Mahoney, Capital B
This story was originally published by Capital B. Nearly 45 years ago, the Acres Homes area north of Houston was the largest unincorporated Black community in the South, a thriving 9-square mile area where homeownership was the norm. That was until the city…In Denver, e-bike vouchers run out as fast as Taylor Swift tickets
Mar 22, 2024, 4:45 am By Gabriela Aoun Angueira
At 11 a.m. on the last Wednesday of February, Denver opened the first application window of the year for its e-bike rebate program, which offers residents upfront rebates of $300 to $1,400 for a battery-powered bicycle. Within three minutes, all of the…A loophole in the EPA’s new sterilizer rule leaves warehouse workers vulnerable
Mar 22, 2024, 4:30 am By Naveena Sadasivam
This story was produced in partnership with Atlanta News First. Thousands of warehouse workers across the U.S. are likely regularly exposed to the cancer-linked chemical ethylene oxide. More than half of the country’s medical equipment is sterilized with…Plastic chemicals are inescapable — and they’re messing with our hormones
Mar 22, 2024, 4:15 am By Joseph Winters
If you were to create a recipe for plastics, you’d need a very big cookbook. In addition to fossil fuel-based building blocks like ethylene and propylene, this ubiquitous material is made from a dizzying amalgam of more than 16,000 chemicals — colorants,…It’s official: US air quality got worse in 2023
Mar 22, 2024, 4:00 am By Sachi Mulkey
When it comes to air quality, neighboring countries are in it together. In 2023, wildfire smoke from across the Canadian border became a primary source of air pollution in major U.S. cities, according to a report released this week. The annual World Air…A journey into home electrification
Mar 21, 2024, 11:00 am By Claire Elise Thompson
The spotlight When Grist writer Tik Root set out on a journey to decarbonize his home, he didn’t intend at first to document the effort. As a journalist covering climate, he’s had years of experience reporting on electrification, energy, and technology —…Santander has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LNG buildout in the Gulf
Mar 21, 2024, 10:44 am By Nimra Shahid & Rob Soutar, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
This story was produced by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and is being co-published with Grist. Santander exploited loopholes in its own climate policy in order to help raise billions for facilities relying on fracked U.S. gas. The bank then quietly…It’s never been easier to decarbonize your home. It’s still not easy enough.
Mar 21, 2024, 4:45 am By Tik Root
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Guardian. My wife and I live in a green, two-story colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in Burlington, Vermont. Each spring, the front of our home is lined with lilacs, crocuses, and peonies. The…With its new tailpipe rules, the EPA eyes an electric future
Mar 20, 2024, 6:10 pm By Syris ValentineTransportation is the largest source of planet-warming gases in the United States, which makes reducing tailpipe pollution as quickly as possible essential to meeting our climate goals. The Biden administration took a huge stride toward that goal Wednesday…
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