This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2022 marks the second year of the last decade we have to solve climate change. Scientists are unanimous that we must halve global carbon emissions by 2030 to have a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change, on top of a long list of societal inequities, disproportionately harms incarcerated people in the U.S., a multi-part Intercept investigation reveals. California, Texas, and Florida have the highest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wolfgang Blau, the co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, discussed the findings of his research on media and climate change in a lecture last week at Oxford University, and published the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week, Schuster and a team of researchers in Singapore published a study shedding new light on the air microbiome — the puzzling and complicated combination of microorganisms in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a paradox. We are doing more than ever to tackle climate change, taking strides that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, yet we feel more overwhelmed…
Host Andrew Simon and co-host Yessenia Funes start off the sixth installment of Temperature Check—Grist’s new podcast on climate, race, and culture—by considering what climate justice will look like on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Droughts occurring at the same time across different regions of the planet could place an unprecedented strain on the global agricultural system and threaten the water security of millions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Severe heat kills more people in the United States than any other hazardous weather-related event. As climate change accelerates, the sweltering heat will become much more extreme, and the associated mortality rate will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Miners and ranchers may have put Colorado’s economy on the map, but industries such as aerospace, finance, and outdoor recreation are diversifying the economic portfolio of the business-friendly state. From…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s becoming less common to find high-growth companies that are not prioritizing environmental, social and governance factors in their organization. If you’re an entrepreneur, failing to disclose how your business…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Extreme flooding has struck almost every corner of the country over the past year, from rural areas in Tennessee and California to the Michigan suburbs and the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Floods have always been by…