Per the Department of Energy, 10 percent of electricity could be generated by geothermal systems by 2050. | Continue reading
If electric cars are the future, people with disabilities need to drive them. | Continue reading
The U.S. is more reliant on solar power than ever. When the eclipse blocks out the sun on April 8, we'll get a glimpse of how our grid uses fossil fuels to compensate, and a future where it won't have to. | Continue reading
The secret to success? Build affordable housing next to transit. | Continue reading
The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country. | Continue reading
A new report finds Amazon has reduced plastic packaging the most in countries with stringent regulations. | Continue reading
Installing solar arrays on commercial and public buildings could bring renewable energy to two-thirds of the nation's disadvantaged neighborhoods. | Continue reading
As the iconic scientist and activist celebrates her 90th birthday, her message for younger generations is one of hope — and not fearing the next adventure. | Continue reading
Nearly a quarter of the nation's grid now runs on renewables, bringing the country closer to its climate goals | Continue reading
Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch. | Continue reading
Steel towns will see some reductions in toxic pollution from new regulations — but not as much as they’d hoped. | Continue reading
“I don’t think money is going to solve it. But I also feel like we do have a responsibility to ensure that we are taking care of the people who are working for all of us.” | Continue reading
Delivery trucks, school buses, and other short-haul vehicles will electrify much faster than big rigs, easing air pollution in urban neighborhoods. | Continue reading
Three Pacific nations signed treaties with the U.S. Then Congress changed the rules. | Continue reading
Texas has become an early hot spot for geothermal energy exploration as scores of former oil industry workers and executives are taking their knowledge to a new energy source. | Continue reading
Human-caused climate change is having varied and unpredictable effects on maple harvests in Wisconsin, Iowa, and elsewhere, experts say. | Continue reading
Federal incentives for clean energy are struggling to overcome old-school planning. | Continue reading
Warmer temperatures are driving outbreaks of dengue worldwide, with millions of cases already reported in 2024. | Continue reading
Aerial monitoring of hundreds of landfills finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA. | Continue reading
In "H Is for Hope," Kolbert explores the contradictions of a global problem, from A to Z. | Continue reading
Museums are reckoning with their own carbon footprints as they work to safeguard their collections from heat and storms. | Continue reading
A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped? | Continue reading
Native leaders say equating "Indigenous peoples" and "local communities" threatens hard-won treaty rights | Continue reading
New research shows that climate change is already driving up food prices, with worse to come. | Continue reading
A community-based approach to restoration combined with an ingenious device can bring back reefs traumatized by dynamite fishing. | Continue reading
The state is spending big on adapting to sea level rise, but Republicans don't want to name the cause. | Continue reading
Would-be voters in the coal and oil state signal they’re increasingly alarmed by climate change. | Continue reading
Half of the projects funded through the law have been allocated to expanding highways. | Continue reading
The city estimates that its wildly popular subsidies are helping to eliminate 170,000 vehicle miles traveled per week. | Continue reading
"They’re going to declare victory on this one and move on." | Continue reading
Researchers say the U.N.'s global plastics treaty must reduce production and protect public health. | Continue reading
A new report finds wildfire smoke from Canada tipped the scales. | Continue reading
Grist writer Tik Root documented his experiences updating his home with cleaner, more climate-friendly systems. | Continue reading
The funds for the liquified natural gas terminals went against the bank’s own policy on fossil fuel investments. | Continue reading
Here's what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas. | Continue reading
Automakers back the tighter emissions regulation, which climate advocates welcome but feel "falls far short of what is needed." | Continue reading
Questions about environmental safety and community health loom over the greenwashed industry and proposed export scheme. | Continue reading
Trackers placed in 93 bundles of Amazon packaging marked for "store drop-off" recycling showed many of them were buried or burned. | Continue reading
A Michigan high school shows how style and sustainability can mix at prom. | Continue reading
A new bill could impose a fee on any company insuring a fossil-fuel project in the state. | Continue reading
To fight climate change, the world needs copper. The third largest deposit on the planet is in Arizona, a site the San Carlos Apache say is “like Mount Sinai to us.” | Continue reading
The trend is bad news for shelters and wildlife alike. | Continue reading
Installing a heat pump now is better for the climate, even if it's run on U.S. electricity generated mostly by fossil fuels. Here’s why. | Continue reading
Rain used to be rare in the Arctic, but as the region warms, so-called rain-on-snow events are becoming more common. The rains accelerate ice loss, trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wildlife and the Indigenous people who depend on them. | Continue reading
Until now, only one other federal informant was known to be in the camps. | Continue reading
Although the rule will slash ethylene oxide emissions by some 90 percent, "there's still a lot more to be done." | Continue reading
Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012. | Continue reading
Humans are killing right whales and while climate change shoulders some of that blame, stronger boating speed limits are a solution. | Continue reading