China’s solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.
Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them, the world’s…
No federal heat standard? NYC workers are building their own safety net.
Dave Carew was going on vacation. But first, he had some tabling to do. It was Thursday, two…
Across Europe, heat adaptation plans are being put to a brutal test
France has been preparing for climate-fueled heat waves for more than two decades. In 2003, more than 14,800…
After a civil rights complaint, Chicago built an extensive air-monitoring network
This story is a partnership between Grist and Chicago Public Media, a public media company serving the Chicago…
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing?
When Kekuewa Kikiloi boarded a research vessel to visit the northwestern Hawaiian islands in 2002, he didn’t know…
This Trump official is dead set on saving a crumbling California dam
The Potter Valley Project, which dams Northern California’s Eel River, isn’t doing very much right now. Its reservoir…
No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill
Nearly six years ago, during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, the president signed a piece…
Once a climate leader, Canada is now doubling down on oil
Before he became prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney was perhaps one of the world’s biggest supporters of…
Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.
For decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, worked across many of the world’s most food-insecure…
These Wyoming oil tycoons are reviving the Keystone pipeline
On the first day of his presidency back in 2021, Joe Biden revoked a key permit for the…
How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up
When President Donald Trump talks about climate change, he often recycles one well-known, shaky argument: that doing anything…
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ blocks endangered species protections in the Gulf of Mexico
The Endangered Species Act is the bedrock law that protects threatened plants and animals in the United States,…