Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief
Dec 23, 2024, 4:45 am By Katie Myers
On the second weekend after Hurricane Helene, Swannanoa Christian Church held its first Sunday…Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’
Dec 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the…Loud, angry, and Indigenous: Heavy metal takes on colonialism and climate change
Dec 23, 2024, 4:30 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
The crowd sways like starlings in murmuration as we wait for the show to start. The relaxed vibe…In Florida, officials and communities clash over where to build the nation’s largest trash incinerator
Dec 23, 2024, 4:15 am By Daniel Chang
When leaders of Florida’s most populous county met in September to pick a site for what could…How a fantasy oil train may help the Supreme Court gut a major environmental law
Dec 22, 2024, 9:00 am By Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of…Biden administration warns natural gas expansion would drive up domestic costs
Dec 21, 2024, 9:00 am By Nina Lakhani, The Guardian
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of…Your gadgets are actually carbon sinks — for now
Dec 20, 2024, 11:00 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up from the depths of the planet. Some of that sludge…A filing error put more than 90,000 acres of Yakama Nation land in the hands of Washington state
Dec 20, 2024, 4:45 am By Maria Parazo Rose
It was barely a choice. In 1855, a time when the ink of border lines on United States maps had…As Trump mulls his FEMA pick, a political land mine awaits in Florida
Dec 20, 2024, 4:30 am By Jake Bittle
Donald Trump owes a lot to his adopted home state of Florida. The state, which is the third-largest…Q&A: How the U.S.–China rivalry is holding back the world’s climate progress
Dec 20, 2024, 4:15 am By Gautama Mehta
In recent years, there has been a dramatic transformation in the economic philosophy guiding the…Biden just set a big new climate goal. Can the U.S. achieve it?
Dec 19, 2024, 5:00 am By Jake Bittle
With just a month left in office, the Biden administration is setting a bold new target for U.S.…A study of 11,000 twins shows how to make America walkable again
Dec 19, 2024, 4:45 am By Matt Simon
For a century now, the United States has prioritized the automobile over the pedestrian. Major…New data shows just how bad the climate insurance crisis has become
Dec 19, 2024, 4:30 am By Tik Root
Five hurricanes made landfall in the United States this year, causing half a trillion dollars in…Indigenous people defending their land face a disproportionate share of violence and threats
Dec 19, 2024, 4:00 am By Taylar Dawn Stagner
In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be…Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity
Dec 18, 2024, 8:00 am By Joseph Winters
As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have…Alert fatigue: The phrase that defined our climate in 2024
Dec 18, 2024, 4:45 am By Kate Yoder
The weather was bound to be bad in 2024, the hottest year on Earth out of the last 125,000 of them.…Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod
Dec 17, 2024, 4:45 am By Frida Garza
There’s a Keurig machine in some 40 million households in the U.S. Single-serve coffee brewing…Spending Christmas with ‘Dr. Doom’
Dec 17, 2024, 4:30 am By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey
I was 11 years old the year my older stepsister brought her high school boyfriend home for the first…Climate takes its toll on the ‘cherry capital of the world’
Dec 17, 2024, 4:15 am By Ayurella Horn-Muller
This coverage is made possible in part through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio…This Indigenous attorney is fighting for climate justice in the world’s highest court
Dec 16, 2024, 4:45 am By Anita Hofschneider
Julian Aguon wore a dark blue suit and garland made of white coconut fronds, brown hibiscus tree…
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