Illinois takes steps to address high energy costs, betting big on battery storage
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Electricity prices have been rising across much of the country, and Illinois is among the states…They survived the hurricane. Their insurance company didn’t.
Nov 4, 2025, 4:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Jennifer and Dean Bye were just getting by before Hurricane Ida slammed into southern Louisiana in…As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar
Nov 4, 2025, 4:30 am By Georgia Gee
Longorot Epuu’s 8-year-old niece, his namesake, was sick. Epuu quickly recognized the signs of…Native Alaska villages were already on the frontlines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
Nov 3, 2025, 4:30 am By Miacel Spotted Elk
A week after Typhoon Halong passed through Japan in early October, its remnants crossed the Pacific…Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change
Nov 2, 2025, 9:00 am By Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report
In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the city’s schools to add solar panels…Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
Nov 1, 2025, 9:00 am By Boone Ashworth, WIRED
Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track…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…
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