Georgia bet big on EV manufacturing. Trump pulled the plug.

It's a grim moment for what was a booming industry in the state. But EV makers are still forging ahead. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 10 hours ago

Wendell Berry’s life on Earth

Throughout his career, the writer and farmer found joy in a world without end. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 10 hours ago

Why it’s so hard to predict a tragedy like Nepal’s glacier collapse

Melting glaciers spell disaster around the world. Protecting people will be a challenge for decades to come. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 day ago

The world is adapting to extreme heat — but not nearly fast enough

Scientists say it will take more than early warning systems and cooling centers to keep people safe. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 day ago

America is losing its war against wildfire

Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 1 day ago

A hard-won rule to cut chemical plant pollution is being unraveled

In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awaited rule. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 3 days ago

How intense rains in the Grand Canyon turned into a deadly disaster

Flash flooding in the Arizona tourist destination was probably triggered by compounding climate factors, such as drought and warming in Pacific Ocean. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 4 days ago

With the midterms looming, Trump has no real way out of his gas price problem

The president is facing a shortage of refining capacity, and more Venezuelan oil isn't going to help. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 5 days ago

As family farms decline and the climate heats up, farmers weigh what to do with their land

In Michigan and around the country, farmers are facing decisions about how to best keep land in production as values rise, climate change threatens operations, and a younger generation chooses not to farm. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 5 days ago

The summer we love is slipping away

From the Southwest to the Jersey shore, climate change is altering the traditions and norms that have defined summer for generations. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 days ago

Fiber optic cables reveal ‘icequakes’ in endangered glaciers

The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 6 days ago

Gen Z is using ‘polyester’ as an insult. It’s actually a throwback.

Here's how the fabric went from a "miracle" fiber to TikTok slang for fake. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 days ago

Michigan invests $7.5M to find out if it’s sitting on a clean energy gold mine

The funding will go toward researching geologic hydrogen, a carbon-free energy source buried beneath the state that could clean up heavy-emitting industries like transportation. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 7 days ago

When plastic companies write the lesson plans

The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 8 days ago

When plastic companies write the lesson plans

The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 8 days ago

When ocean temperatures increase, so does child malnutrition on land

Researchers are just discovering this troubling consequence of climate change, but they still don't know why it happens. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 9 days ago

Manhattan’s flood walls are almost done. What will Mamdani do next?

The new mayor wants to invest in coastal resilience, but he will have to decide which areas of the city to protect. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 9 days ago

West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change

Adam Kalkstein compared the administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the Constitution. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 10 days ago

Nevada preached peace on the Colorado River. Now it’s suing to protect its water.

The state’s lawsuit claims the federal government’s plan for the river could strip Las Vegas of two-thirds of its water supply. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 11 days ago

The rush to power data centers is weakening the Clean Air Act

New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

How to deal with burnout on a burning planet

Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

How to deal with burnout on a burning planet

Licensed therapist Leslie Davenport offers advice to two readers facing paralysis from different points in their climate journeys. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs

Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

In the American West, wildfire comes for the suburbs

Despite decades of warnings, neighborhoods in Reno and Spokane have sprawled ever closer to a hotter, drier wilderness. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

New research shows the world isn’t doing nearly enough to fix its food problem

Emissions from agriculture are trending up, but experts say progress must continue even as we blow past global deadlines. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 12 days ago

‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem

Tech billionaires say they want to make life better on Earth. Here's what they're not talking about. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 13 days ago

On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US

Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 13 days ago

On Louisiana’s disappearing coast, a natural gas terminal is poised to become the largest in the US

Fast-tracked by the Trump administration, the $18 billion expansion would more than double the size of Plaquemines LNG. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 13 days ago

The fossil fuel industry is spending record amounts to keep California from regulating it

In the first half of this year, oil and gas interests poured more than $17 million into fighting climate and worker-safety legislation. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 13 days ago

The great American road trip is in peril

Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 14 days ago

US companies are on the cusp of big climate solutions. Thank the government.

The Department of Energy’s moonshot funding program is working. President Trump seems inclined to keep it. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 15 days ago

Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most

The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 15 days ago

Offshore wind power projects are flailing, just when the East Coast needs them most

The region needs a lot of new electricity and wants it to be clean. The Trump administration and economic headwinds crippled its best solution. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 15 days ago

Tennessee helped usher in the nuclear age. It wants to lead the way again.

But the region’s long industrial and nuclear history has left more toxic legacies, too. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 16 days ago

Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs

Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 16 days ago

Living with drought has taught pastoralists lessons the world needs

Half a billion pastoralists draw on generations of knowledge to thrive on rangelands. They say protecting their way of life would help others prepare for a hotter, drier world. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 16 days ago

Even meteorologists are baffled by the Midwestern tornado season

More than 200 tornadoes have hit Illinois this year. Here's how the twisters form, and how climate change might be influencing them. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 16 days ago

Trump ordered to release billions in climate grants meant for Black communities

From the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, to sewage problems in Alabama, stalled projects could get new life after federal court rulings. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 17 days ago

Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’

Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 18 days ago

Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer

The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 19 days ago

Solar buoyed Europe’s grid amid record-breaking heat and drought this summer

The season of extreme weather holds lessons for how the continent can climate-proof its energy systems. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 19 days ago

In a drier world, some infectious diseases are unexpectedly thriving

Researchers are beginning to untangle how the “drought-disease paradox” works. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 19 days ago

Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.

An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 20 days ago

How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks

Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, a WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 20 days ago

Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development

The proposal would repeal the Roadless Rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 20 days ago

Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development

The proposal would repeal the roadless rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging, despite widespread opposition from scientists and the public. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 20 days ago

All aboard Amtrak’s sleeker, cleaner new trains

The $8B Airo fleet promises cleaner, more reliable service as passenger rail enjoys record ridership — and faces an uncertain future in Washington. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 21 days ago

US Army Corps approves a pipeline project it knows harms Indigenous lands

The proposal to replace an aging segment of the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes still needs state approval. Tribal nations say the federal review violates treaty rights. | Continue reading


@grist.org | 21 days ago