Climate

Climate change means communities along the Mississippi River are experiencing longer and higher floods in springtime, flash flooding from heavy rains, as well as prolonged droughts. Now cities along the river are turning to each other for solutions.

Sarah Kearney found her mission right out of high school. That summer, a wealthy family asked her to help launch a philanthropy focused on fighting climate change. She’d so impressed…

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VC investment for female founders dropped in 2023.

In the wake of rising housing prices, mobile home residents are banding together to buy the land under their homes.

Major cities on the US Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year, a new study shows.

Plastics, taxes, and expensive desserts: Grist reporters weigh in on the climate trends that will shape the year ahead.

Climate experts give the U.S. mixed grades on its efforts to mitigate climate change — but they all agree there’s room for improvement.

The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.

As storms get warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up.

Grist asked 10 different countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” climate fund launched at COP28.