This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late May and then in June when companies and individuals were posting black squares across social media as a symbol of their commitment to Black lives, in the wake…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In late June, Portland, Oregon, experienced its hottest day on record, reaching 42° Celsius (108° Fahrenheit). The last time it had been this hot was in 1981, when temperatures soared to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Elizabeth Yeampierre has been an important voice on these issues for more than two decades. As co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, she leads a coalition of more than 70 organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States is expected to experience as much sea-level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. That’s according to a NOAA-led report updating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Daily Harvest, American Farmland Trust (AFT), and California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) recently launched a partnership that aims to help underserved farmers in California strengthen their farms and transition to sustainable agricultural practices. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2022 marks the second year of the last decade we have to solve climate change. Scientists are unanimous that we must halve global carbon emissions by 2030 to have a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change, on top of a long list of societal inequities, disproportionately harms incarcerated people in the U.S., a multi-part Intercept investigation reveals. California, Texas, and Florida have the highest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wolfgang Blau, the co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, discussed the findings of his research on media and climate change in a lecture last week at Oxford University, and published the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week, Schuster and a team of researchers in Singapore published a study shedding new light on the air microbiome — the puzzling and complicated combination of microorganisms in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a paradox. We are doing more than ever to tackle climate change, taking strides that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, yet we feel more overwhelmed…
Host Andrew Simon and co-host Yessenia Funes start off the sixth installment of Temperature Check—Grist’s new podcast on climate, race, and culture—by considering what climate justice will look like on…