A trillion cicadas will emerge in the next few weeks. This hasn’t happened since 1803.

They're a little early, thanks to climate change. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

America’s grid isn’t ready for a renewable future. A new federal rule could change that.

The regulation requires grid operators to develop plans to build out the transmission needed to deliver on Biden’s climate agenda. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Grist acquires The Counter and launches food and agriculture vertical

Two new reporters will lead the organization's agriculture coverage. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Why we acquired The Counter

A note from Grist's CEO. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Can electric woks produce great stir fry?

Many chefs are asking what a future without gas will mean for culinary traditions like wok cooking. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Can electric woks produce great stir fry?

Many chefs are asking what a future without gas will mean for culinary traditions like wok cooking. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?

To make crops resilient to climate change, scientists are exposing seeds to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and low gravity. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades

Could the same be happening to us? | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages

Harms include severe weather, crop failures and economic hits from lack of ice and snow. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages

Harms include severe weather, crop failures, and economic hits from lack of ice and snow. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

As sea levels rise, the Quinalt Nation moves to higher ground

The community on the coast of Washington state has a plan to establish a new village with low-impact development and green infrastructure. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

A year in, New York’s pioneering public power law makes uneven progress

New York Power Authority is preparing to build state-owned clean energy projects for the first time — but advocates want more transparency. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

In Brazil, unprecedented flooding may force a political reckoning

“This is going to shake the mindsets of voters." | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Want to contact the Georgia Public Service Commission? Here’s how.

A guide to interacting with the board that controls energy policy in Georgia. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The world is obsessed with forests’ climate benefits. Here’s the problem.

People depend on forests for food and income. Offset projects can kick them out. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Behind the ‘butter board’: How the dairy industry took over your feed

A vast constellation of celebrities, from Kelly Ripa to the McDonald’s mascot Grimace, have helped push dairy sales. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Texas flooding brings new urgency to Houston home buyout program

The San Jacinto River is a national hotspot for ‘managed retreat,’ but recent floods show how far local officials still have to go. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.

The history of the oil industry is etched into the coral's rocky skeleton. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Occidental Petroleum’s net-zero strategy is a ‘license to pollute,’ critics say

The company’s climate strategy could result in more emissions than it prevents. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

California’s EV wave highlights the challenges ahead for utilities

As much as $20 billion in upgrades will be required, but the electric vehicle transition could still reduce rates statewide. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

How ‘15-minute cities’ could save time, reduce emissions, and build community

Carlos Moreno, the scientist behind the concept, wrote a new book to introduce the 15-minute city to a wider audience. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

One way or another, new EPA rules will stop pollution from coal-fired emissions

The power sector’s biggest emitters have less than a decade to start capturing their carbon or shut down | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water

The commonwealth is home to the data center capital of the world. Can it handle AI's thirst? | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?

When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then re-release them,” Wood said. “And I knew that species really well.” It wasn’t until ye … | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Arizona wants to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon. Tribal nations are fighting back.

“The tribes fought very hard for the establishment of the monument and are here to defend it.” | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

How the Miccosukee Tribe plans to stop oil drilling in the Everglades once and for all

The proposal comes amid continued interest in expanding oil production within the Big Cypress National Preserve, an Everglades wilderness the tribe considers sacred. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges

With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The country’s first new aluminum smelter in 45 years could cut production emissions by 75%

Century Aluminum Co. hopes half a billion dollars in federal funding will help it revive a dying industry while making it less polluting. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Illinois passed a law to clean up coal ash 5 years ago. What’s taking so long?

In one Chicago suburb, people have been waiting for relief for years. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The world’s garment workers are on the frontlines of climate impacts

Fast fashion is one of the world’s most polluting industries. Its global workforce is paying the price. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn’t

It's the first evidence of an oil company acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

After Lāhainā, Indigenous peoples call for independence

Activists appealed to the United Nations for help staving off “disaster capitalism” in the wake of the deadly blaze. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

This spring, DC-area students are planting native flowers — and activating ‘the solarpunk imagination’

A new initiative invited student groups to design and plant gardens that will promote wildlife, and cultivate their visions for the future. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

UN plastics treaty inches closer to reality as lobbyists tout plastics’ ‘massive societal benefits’

A deal to stop plastic pollution is moving forward, but negotiators can’t agree on whether to produce less of the stuff. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

What will it take to get companies to embrace reusable packaging?

Inside the effort to standardize the design of returnable containers. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

EPA finally takes on abandoned coal ash ponds — but it might be too late

Will utilities clean up toxic waste at power plants, or run out an election-year clock? | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The problem with forcing people back to the office? All the carbon emissions.

Return-to-office mandates could be getting in the way of companies' climate goals. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?

A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

The world agreed to create a climate reparations fund. Now comes the hard part.

A 26-member board is finally beginning work on the UN’s new loss and damage fund. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

US military bases teem with PFAS. There’s still no firm plan to clean them up.

Excessive levels of PFAS have been detected at 80 percent of active and decommissioned military bases | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 months ago

A decade later, Flint’s water crisis continues

The past 10 years revealed how government failures at every level could effectively kill a city, turning it into a "ghost town." | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

A highway in Indiana could one day charge your EV while you’re driving it

Construction of the pilot project on U.S. Highway 52 began this month. State officials hope it can help quell range anxiety and electrify long-haul trucks. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization

Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN

From harassment to kidnapping and arrest, Indigenous advocates who face reprisals for their work say the U.N. must protect them. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

Rivers are the West’s largest source of clean energy. What happens when drought strikes?

With rivers across the West running low, utilities must get creative if they are to meet demand without increasing emissions. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

Republican attorneys general mount a new attack on the EPA’s use of civil rights law

23 states want the Biden administration's EPA to curtail its approach to environmental justice. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago

The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute

A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 months ago