Trump wants to take an ax to the East’s last great forests
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist, WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station; and WBEZ, a public radio station…
Diving robots help crack the mystery of Antarcticas’ vanishing sea ice
Something strange has been swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until a decade ago, 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…
In Nebraska, wildfires are turning cattle ranching into a tricky business
This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit…
The Honor Magic8 Pro: Gadget Review from Jonathan Margolis
the Honor Magic8 ProApple’s successor in tech wizardry has arrived It is still emphatically the case that Apple…
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,…
Oceans absorb the Earth’s excess energy, imperiling food systems
Every year, the World Meteorological Organization, or WMO, tracks a set of key climate indicators — including the…
The West’s unprecedented winter could fuel a summer of disaster
In Park City, Utah, skiers could find patches of grass poking through the slopes for much of the…
Texas saw a $50B future in renewables. Then the political winds shifted.
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Texas Observer. On an unseasonably warm January day,…
Your ‘widely recyclable’ Starbucks cup is still trash
Frappuccino lovers, rejoice: Your plastic to-go cups are now “widely recyclable.” That’s according to an announcement made in…
Iran was already running out of water. Then came the ‘war on infrastructure.’
Last week, following escalating attacks on critical energy and water facilities, the Israeli-U.S. war in Iran entered a…
Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers.
In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on…