Former EPA employees warn that rural and underserved communities across the country will be left with fewer protections against environmental health hazards and limited options for recourse. | Continue reading
A relentless storm is unleashing floods and tornadoes. Here's how a warmer atmosphere and a simmering Gulf of Mexico could be making it worse. | Continue reading
The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost? | Continue reading
Inside the little-understood fight between deep sea miners and Indigenous advocates for the ocean. | Continue reading
The appliances are key to ditching fossil fuels, but they rely on powerful greenhouse gases to work. Here’s how to tackle that problem. | Continue reading
Advocates for marine health say aquaculture 'has no place in U.S. ocean waters." | Continue reading
In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. | Continue reading
Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder. | Continue reading
Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help. | Continue reading
The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same to clean tech. | Continue reading
Tesla has long been a leader in the electric vehicles market. Now it's facing mounting protests and plummeting sales. | Continue reading
It's not just high-profile lawsuits — climate solutions need contracts, corporate advice, and IP filings. | Continue reading
Mentions of environmental concerns on S&P 500 earnings calls have plunged. | Continue reading
The Department of Transportation has threatened to pull funding for high-profile climate-friendly projects in California, New York, and Washington, D.C. | Continue reading
After mass firings and rehiring, thousands of federal employees are bracing for deeper cuts — just as wildfires, floods, and rising temperatures threaten national parks. | Continue reading
A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing beneath the waves. | Continue reading
“Gardiner is a company town and Yellowstone is the mill. If somebody starts screwing with the mill, we have no choice but to be concerned.” | Continue reading
Experts say tribes are protesting federal agencies as Trump fast tracks oil and gas projects. | Continue reading
According to Indigenous legal experts, the freeze erodes the little trust Indian country has in the federal government. | Continue reading
Bird flu has apparently done what environmentalists have long dreamed of: made Americans curious about egg alternatives. | Continue reading
With a $4.5 trillion fight over tax cuts looming, the oil and gas industry wants to protect billions of dollars in tax benefits it enjoys and get new ones, too. | Continue reading
Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state. | Continue reading
After the L.A. fires, updated hazard maps show “we are living in a new reality of extremes." | Continue reading
From farm to retail, the threat of trade barriers is already impacting the food supply chain. | Continue reading
Extreme weather wiped out billions in crops last year — but most federal aid may end up going to the wrong farms. | Continue reading
Shuttering the disaster agency could leave poor and rural communities exposed. | Continue reading
The Department of Transportation considers freezing funding for bike lanes and other pedestrian safety projects as the Trump administration leans into fossil fuels. | Continue reading
Political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth. | Continue reading
The landmark Juliana v. United States sparked a global movement to defend children's rights to a healthy climate, a campaign that's already scored two wins. | Continue reading
A new report finds that while electricity demand skyrocketed, the deployment of new wind, solar, and nuclear power did, too. | Continue reading
A new report finds that while electricity demand skyrocketed, the deployment of new wind, solar, and nuclear power did, too. | Continue reading
To address climate change, we're going to need a whole lot of metal. | Continue reading
The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are racing to protect already scarce water supplies and their way of life. | Continue reading
Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market? | Continue reading
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.” | Continue reading
Recycling provides economic, national security, and environmental benefits. But the United States is playing catch-up to Asian countries, particularly China. | Continue reading
A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support. | Continue reading
Grist spoke with five experts to understand what free, prior, and informed consent should look like in this new era of extraction. | Continue reading
Extracting resources from the Earth always comes with costs. As we race toward a cleaner, greener future, there is a risk of repeating the abuses of mining for coal and other fossil fuels. | Continue reading
Not all critical minerals need to come from digging up the earth. | Continue reading
Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising — but challenging — source of minerals: seawater. | Continue reading
A "rollercoaster" of funding cuts and layoffs have gutted critical agricultural research projects across the nation. | Continue reading
After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC's efforts to decarbonize its buildings. | Continue reading
New research shows which products are closest to "taste parity" — and which need more work. | Continue reading
Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk. | Continue reading
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide. | Continue reading
"The health of Palestinians affects the health of Israelis and vice versa. And the best example is water." | Continue reading
As one of the regions most affected by the global climate crisis, local scientists are struggling with canceled research grants and funding cuts from federal agencies. | Continue reading