Voters showed up in droves to cast their ballots, navigating last-minute polling changes spurred by hurricanes Helene and Milton. | Continue reading
In Lake Charles, voters spoke about how past hurricanes have influenced their politics | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to our special Election Day edition of State of Emergency. I’m Zoya Teirstein, and today I’m reporting from rainy Buncombe County, North Carolina. I spent the morning talking to voters at the Fairview Public Library — one of 17 temporary polling sites in the co … | Continue reading
Republican David Valadao has held down his blue district by fighting for thirsty farms. But with control of Congress on the line, his luck may be running out. | Continue reading
Her new book chronicles her life: "The story dies when no one tells it." | Continue reading
A newly discovered bacterium could help humans deal with climate change — if scientists can figure out how to crack open its DNA. | Continue reading
A newly discovered bacterium could help humans deal with climate change — if scientists can figure out how to crack open its DNA. | Continue reading
A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the U.S. power grid — and some of them are on your ballots. | Continue reading
The lawsuit says the companies knew the limitations of plastics recycling but promoted it anyway. | Continue reading
Voters in nearly a dozen states will vote on measures that affect energy, water, climate disasters, and more. | Continue reading
A Floodlight analysis in nine of the 10 states that elect public utility commissioners found that more than a third of their contributions of $250 and up are from fossil fuel and electric utility interests — more than $13.5 million in all. | Continue reading
What record early voting in Georgia and North Carolina says about the storm and the stakes of the election. | Continue reading
What record early voting in Georgia and North Carolina says about the storm and the stakes of the election. | Continue reading
Home insurers have raised premiums after extreme weather events. Now car insurers in the U.S. are doing the same thing. | Continue reading
In battleground states like Georgia, tens of thousands of climate-conscious voters who didn't show up in 2020 have already cast their ballots. | Continue reading
Only six panels on the market meet the government's sustainability standards — but that number could soon grow. | Continue reading
Advocacy groups say we’re at a “key moment” to reduce plastic production and protect communities from chemicals. | Continue reading
A ballot measure would permanently close a coastal highway to private vehicles. If the City by the Bay can't do it, who can? | Continue reading
If approved, these national monuments would protect around 1 million acres. | Continue reading
The Footprint Project wants to create a solar-powered microgrid “lending library” to deploy during disaster recovery efforts to reduce reliance on generators, which increase air pollution and are costly to run. | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m L.V. Anderson (or Laura to my colleagues), a senior editor at Grist, and I’m taking over the newsletter today to give you a wide-angle look at how climate change is affecting democracy not just in the U.S., but around the world. … | Continue reading
There's evidence that global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power. | Continue reading
Climate change is making farm work more difficult and dangerous. But workers worry technology could lead to further exploitation. | Continue reading
The deaths of two elderly siblings and their 60-year-old caretaker at first mystified Brownsville. Extreme heat is a quiet but growing threat for Rio Grande Valley residents with chronic health conditions. | Continue reading
Terra CO2 wants to make cement additives from mining waste. The startup could get a $52.6 million DOE grant to build a clean energy factory near Salt Lake City. | Continue reading
Postville, Iowa, has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer. | Continue reading
America depends on Southeastern agriculture. After two hurricanes and billions of dollars in damages, the US food supply chain faces an uncertain future. | Continue reading
Faced with a future of uncertainty and change, four people share the climate messages they chose to wear forever. | Continue reading
From public health to public lands, here are 15 ways the next president could affect the climate and your life. | Continue reading
Does changing the shape of the recycling symbol make it any less misleading? | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re going to shift the focus away from the storm-battered Southeast and take a look at one of the nation’s hottest battleground states. Election Day is just two weeks away, and the high-octane race for pr … | Continue reading
The fate of the state’s water depends on this election. For politicians and voters, it’s mostly an afterthought. | Continue reading
The interconnected climate and housing crises are putting some Montpelier residents one disaster away from homelessness. | Continue reading
Research shows that businesses with charging stations nearby see an economic boost. | Continue reading
The locals are worried: “Just because CO2 sequestration can be done doesn't mean it should be done" | Continue reading
The locals are worried: “Just because CO2 sequestration can be done doesn't mean it should be done." | Continue reading
Tribal nations long ago learned to stitch together a patchwork of support to help each other cope with disasters like Hurricane Helene. | Continue reading
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland’s ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores. | Continue reading
Wetlands absorb carbon from the atmosphere. The Coeur d’Alene’s restoration would do more than just that. | Continue reading
Not everyone rides out storms like Milton or Helene by choice. Some simply cannot afford to flee. | Continue reading
A shortage of potable water and the toxic stew of sewage and other pollutants the flood left behind has prompted a race to avert a public health crisis in North Carolina. | Continue reading
Across the globe, Prime packages will now be cushioned by paper. | Continue reading
"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands." | Continue reading
Solar panels typically last 25 years, while shingles are good for 20. Waiting until you need to re-roof is usually the best course when going solar. | Continue reading
“We have to be smarter about what we grow, and we can be smarter about how we grow what we're growing.” | Continue reading
At a reforestation site in Washington, forest managers are experimenting with "assisted migration" — planting trees from warmer, drier regions — to boost the forest's resilience. | Continue reading
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re talking about the political impact of Hurricane Milton, the second major storm to strike the United States in the last few weeks. I grew up in Tampa, Florida, less than 20 miles inland from the Gulf o … | Continue reading
No other part of the country has seen such a sharp rise in the number of big fires. The bigger challenge, though, is getting people to embrace the prescribed burns that can prevent them. | Continue reading