How Maui’s wildfires became the country’s deadliest in more than a century
Aug 14, 2023, 9:32 pm By Max GrahamThe wind picked up on Maui the night before the fires broke out. By early morning on August 8, gusts…What one school’s fight to eliminate PFAS says about Indian Country’s forever chemical problem
Aug 14, 2023, 8:45 am By Zoya Teirstein
Laurie Harper, director of education for the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School, a K-12 tribal school on the…What it might look like if President Biden really declared a climate emergency
Aug 14, 2023, 8:30 am By Akielly HuThis story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how —…Gulf Coast carbon capture gets $1 billion boost from Biden administration
Aug 14, 2023, 8:15 am By Lyric AquinoThe Biden administration announced its biggest effort yet last week to scrub carbon dioxide out of…EPA approved a fuel ingredient even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime
Aug 13, 2023, 1:00 pm By Sharon Lerner, ProPublicaThis story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of…The one-mile rule: Texas’ unwritten and arbitrary policy protects big polluters from citizen complaints
Aug 12, 2023, 1:00 pm By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of…The ocean is shattering heat records. Here’s what that means for fisheries.
Aug 11, 2023, 8:45 am By Max Graham
Scientists first spotted the Blob in late 2013. The sprawling patch of unusually tepid water in the…After a Pittsburgh coal processing plant closed, ER visits plummeted
Aug 11, 2023, 8:30 am By Katie Myers
Pittsburgh, in its founding, was blessed and cursed with two abundant natural resources:…Louisiana breaks ground on experimental project to rebuild lost wetlands
Aug 10, 2023, 11:01 pm By Katie Myers
Over thousands of years, the Mississippi River wended its way through the lush and dense wetlands of…Using ‘recycled plastic’ in construction materials may not be a great idea after all
Aug 10, 2023, 8:45 am By Joseph Winters
Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a…Wildfires just destroyed a Maui town. Next year could be worse.
Aug 10, 2023, 4:49 am By Anita HofschneiderNelly Niumatalolo couldn’t believe it when she heard it. A wildfire in Lahaina? The Oahu-born…Summit to save the Amazon from ‘the point of no return’ yields mixed results
5:29pm By Tik RootThis week, South American leaders descended on Belém, Brazil, to try to save the Amazon rainforest.…When climate solutions stop trending
2:55pm By Claire Elise Thompson
The vision “If we want to bring in as many people as possible, then why would we want to build a…How the ‘circular economy’ went from environmentalist dream to marketing buzzword
8:45am By Joseph Winters
At a conference in Seattle this summer, Coca-Cola set up shop in an exhibition hall to show off one…The kelp business is booming. Can regulators keep up?
8:30am By Emma Loewe
Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than…Biden designates Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukven National Monument
Tue 7:18pm By Lyric AquinoPresident Biden on Tuesday designated a new national monument on lands near the Grand Canyon,…How doctors treat extreme heat
Tue 1:00pm By Zoya Teirstein
H ey there, welcome to another issue of Record High. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and this week I’m…On Chicago’s South Side, neighbors fight to keep Lake Michigan at bay
Tue 8:45am By Siri Chilukuri
Jera Slaughter looks at her backyard with pride, pointing out every feature and explaining how it…A crisis of isolation is making heat waves more deadly
Tue 8:30am By Akielly Hu
This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how —…Federal maps said they weren’t in a flood zone. Then came the rain.
Tue 8:15am By Tik Root
This story was co-published with WBUR. As heavy rain drenched Barre, Vermont last month, Kim Beinin…
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