The great American road trip is in peril
My husband, friends, and I sat huddled at a faux-marble-topped table in the lobby of our Utah hotel,…
Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania. Herd size…
Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer
Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the European continent this summer, delivering the region’s hottest June on record. A…
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…
Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last
A recent report from Brazil’s national space agency showed that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is the lowest…
Dividends for Life: How to Turn Your CPF Excess into a Monthly Cash Machine
CPF is built to fund retirement. But what if you have more than enough? For some Singaporeans, excess…
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…
How to build a highway in the age of climate change
Between the view, the marshes, and the birds, Liat Meitzenheimer concedes the drive along California State Route 37…
Urban trees aren’t just nice, scientists say — they’re mandatory
They tower overhead and sway in the wind and often teem with squawking birds, yet trees are easy…
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…