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. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, affectionately known as RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), is becoming the coolest climate club on the East Coast. The program, which went into effect in 2009, places…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of…
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…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In whisking hikers from busy downtown streets and light rail stations out to hundreds of miles of backcountry trails, Trailhead Direct represents what outdoor recreation groups and transit planners alike…
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…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From February 9 to 11, scientists, world leaders, and international companies will meet in the port city of Brest in Brittany, France, for the One Ocean Summit. The meeting will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tucked next to the 105 Freeway, just east of the Los Angeles International Airport, is the Lennox Community Garden. Once an agricultural hamlet, Lennox is now a densely built neighborhood cornered by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural system and threaten the water security of millions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…