Biden bars oil drilling across wide swath of Alaska’s Arctic
Sep 7, 2023, 12:31 am By Max GrahamThe Biden Administration took steps to set aside millions of acres of undeveloped land and vital…The planet just sizzled through the hottest summer on record
Sep 6, 2023, 9:21 pm By Max GrahamThe summer of shattered heat records – hottest month, week, and day — has just shattered another…How Georgia’s organized crime law swept up dozens of nonviolent ‘Cop City’ activists
Sep 6, 2023, 9:16 pm By Alleen BrownIn Georgia, 61 environmental activists and other opponents of the Atlanta Public Safety Training…Burning Man’s climate reckoning has begun
Sep 5, 2023, 10:08 pm By Zoya TeirsteinBurning Man, the transient bacchanal that attracts more than 70,000 party-goers to the remote Nevada…After a year and a half, negotiators finally have a draft of the global plastics treaty
Sep 5, 2023, 10:06 pm By Joseph WintersIn March 2022, 175 countries agreed to write a global treaty to address the plastic pollution…How many people are really dying from heat?
Sep 5, 2023, 1:00 pm By Zoya TeirsteinHello, and welcome to this week’s edition of Record High. I’m Zoya Teirstein, and today, we’re…Ken Paxton may be impeached, but his anti-environment legacy will live on
Sep 5, 2023, 8:45 am By Naveena SadasivamIt was the winter of 2015 and Ken Paxton, the newly elected attorney general of Texas, stood before…In a small French town where Houston-based LyondellBasell is a fixture, residents complain of unending pollution
Sep 5, 2023, 8:30 am By Nazmul AhasanThis story was co-published with Public Health Watch and Houston Landing. People living on the east…Why the United States undercounts climate-driven deaths
Sep 5, 2023, 8:15 am By Zoya TeirsteinThis story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how —…Under new state law, Texas will bill electric vehicle drivers an extra $200 a year
Sep 4, 2023, 1:00 pm By Emily Foxhall, The Texas TribuneThis story was originally published by the Texas Tribune, a nonpartisan newsroom informing and…Why the Gulf of Mexico’s first offshore wind auction wasn’t a smash hit
Sep 3, 2023, 1:00 pm By Maria GallucciThis story was originally published by Canary Media and is republished with permission. The Biden…‘I’m not the guilty one’: the water protector facing jail time for trying to stop a pipeline
Sep 2, 2023, 1:00 pm By Nina Lakhani, The GuardianThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Global…‘Extreme victory’: Years of organization leads to the shuttering of a toxic polluter in south Memphis
Sep 1, 2023, 9:30 pm By Lylla YounesIn a major victory for the people of south Memphis, a plant that uses carcinogenic ethylene oxide to…Beef guzzlers: 12% of Americans eat half of the country’s cow meat
Sep 1, 2023, 8:45 am By Max GrahamIt’s a truth universally acknowledged that Americans love to stuff their faces with cow meat.…As the UN designs a new carbon market, experts call for a different approach
Sep 1, 2023, 8:30 am By Joseph WintersBack in 2015, when 174 countries and the European Union came together to finalize the Paris…Forget eco-activists: This climate novel stars an oil industry shill
Sep 1, 2023, 8:30 am By Jake BittleWhen people think about “climate fiction,” they tend to imagine the speculative sci-fi of…Researchers find nuclear fingerprints in sea turtle shells
Aug 31, 2023, 7:25 pm By Anita HofschneiderA new study found trace amounts of nuclear waste in sea turtles in the Marshall Islands and five…As winters warm, the citrus industry squeezes into Georgia
Aug 31, 2023, 8:45 am By Emily JonesThis coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist, a nonprofit, independent…Even the bayous of Louisiana are now threatened by wildfires
Aug 31, 2023, 8:30 am By Lylla YounesMike Strain, the commissioner who runs the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, stared…Electrifying your home is about to get a lot cheaper
Aug 31, 2023, 8:15 am By Tik RootMaking homes more efficient and more electric is critical to combating climate change. But the…
- Visit Grist at grist.org
- Bookmark and Share
- Grist RSS Feed
Welcome to EcoTopical Your daily eco-friendly green news aggregator.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.
Leaf through planet Earths environmental headlines in one convenient place. Read, share and discover the latest on ecology, science and green living from the web's most popular sites.