Environment

A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.

VC investment for female founders dropped in 2023.

In the wake of rising housing prices, mobile home residents are banding together to buy the land under their homes.

A new study reveals that 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view.

Major cities on the US Atlantic coast are sinking, in some cases as much as 5 millimeters per year, a new study shows.

Plastics, taxes, and expensive desserts: Grist reporters weigh in on the climate trends that will shape the year ahead.

Andean communities reviving ancestral water technologies are key to fighting climate change, says Community Voices Fellow Paloma Rodríguez.

The landscape-level report, Funding Trends 2023: Tracking the State of Global Ocean Funding, presents trends on global ocean funding over the past decade-plus. The primary focus is on mapping marine conservation…

Climate experts give the U.S. mixed grades on its efforts to mitigate climate change — but they all agree there’s room for improvement.

The US saw a record number of billion-dollar disasters in 2023, even when accounting for inflation. The number of long-running heat waves like the Southwest experienced is also rising.

Lingering wildfire smoke from Oregon’s Archie Creek fire (Photo by Jan Pytalski, The Daily Yonder) Wildfire smoke travels wherever the win…

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.