Environment

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.

A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.

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.

Andean communities reviving ancestral water technologies are key to fighting climate change, says Community Voices Fellow Paloma Rodríguez.

The landscape-level report, Funding Trends 2023: Tracking the State of Global Ocean Funding, presents trends on global ocean funding over the past decade-plus. The primary focus is on mapping marine conservation…

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.