FEMA Why FEMA isn’t prepared for the next major U.S. disastergrist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino According to every climate prediction model, our rapidly warming world is slated to experience more frequent and severe weather-related disasters. …
Glaciers Here’s why Iceland is mourning a dead glaciergrist.org - Zoya Teirstein Some 100 people gathered at the top of a volcano in Iceland on Sunday for an unusual funeral. The victim: A 700-year-old, six-mile glacier. Cause of …
Bottled Water ‘The next Flint,’ and America’s problem with lead in its watergrist.org - Molly Enking Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its …
Pollen In Detroit, ‘revolutionary’ mapping could help residents with asthmagrist.org - Lucas Joel This story was originally published by Undark Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Much of Detroit is in ruins. The …
Colorado River The climate-inspired detente on the Coloradogrist.org - Nathanael Johnson For the first time in history, low water levels on the Colorado River have forced Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico to cut back the amount of water they …
Greenland Greenland’s moment in the sun goes beyond Trump’s real estate interestsgrist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino Greenland is sooo hot right now. And we’re not just talking literally (though, yeah, that’s also true). In the last week, the gigantic Arctic island …
Liberal View The Trump administration tried to bury a climate study on … rice?grist.org - Zoya Teirstein The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own …
Ozone We’ve got another ozone problem, and it’s not what you thinkgrist.org - Zoya Teirstein Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe. In the 1980s, scientists …
Hurricane Maria A romance novel about Hurricane Maria exists. Here’s why.grist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino Nothing puts a damper on one’s romantic life like a Category 5 hurricane. That’s just one of the obstacles faced by 20-year-old former sex worker …
University of Kansas How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are.grist.org - Kate Yoder Deadly heat waves, violent downpours, wildfires that seem to get more intense every year — the climate crisis leaves no part of the globe untouched. …
Amazon Rainforest Will I be able to tell when we’ve reached a climate tipping point?grist.org - Eve Andrews What is the full list of climate tipping points for melting ice, permafrost, etc.? And what’s the best guess of when each becomes irreversible? Woooo, …
Carbon Emissions We have to transform food production to take on climate change, leaked report saysgrist.org - Robin McKie This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Attempts to solve the climate crisis …
Burger King Impossible Burger investor bets big on bean-free coffeegrist.org - Zoe Sayler You’ve heard of meatless meat and milkless milk. But would you drink beanless coffee? The powers that be are betting on it: Atomo, the company behind …
Liberal View Who will pay for the huge costs of holding back rising seas?grist.org - Jim Morrison This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For cities in the United …
Amazon Rainforest The climate change ‘tipping point’ has already arrived for these 70 U.S. countiesgrist.org - Molly Enking For years now now, we’ve been hearing warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — the global average cautioned against as part of the 2015 Paris …
Politics 22 states sue the Trump administration over its climate ‘plan’grist.org - Rachel Ramirez Twenty-two states and seven cities sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over the Environmental Protection Agency’s new plan for power plants. The …
Texas A&M Can the ‘masters of the flood’ help Texas protect its coast from hurricanes?grist.org - Kiah Collier On a sunny Friday in late May, a jubilant wedding party scrambled to the top of a colossal sand dune in this tiny Dutch beach town for a photoshoot, …
New York City Council How NYC is protecting people from the deadliest disastergrist.org - Kea Krause In the summer of 1896, a heat wave, dense and deadly, settled over New York City. In a time before air conditioners, average indoor temperatures …
Trump Administration The Trump administration gutted one of our most powerful environmental lawsgrist.org - Nicole Javorsky This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration unveiled …
Elizabeth Warren The U.N. report calls for better farming. Which 2020 candidates have a plan for that?grist.org - Miyo McGinn In a modest sign of Americans’ escalating interest in global warming, several 2020 Democratic presidential contenders have been talking a fairly …
Yarn Your neighbors may be cooking up climate solutionsgrist.org - Chip Giller Last year, there was a best-selling biography and a moving documentary about the unflappably polite, besweatered children’s television star. In …
This evangelical leader calls young Christians to save the planetgrist.org - Kate Yoder The subject of our overheating planet didn’t come up much in Kyle Meyaard-Schaap’s home when he was growing up, but when it did, it was usually the …
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Burn. Build. Repeat: Why our wildfire policy is so deadlygrist.org - Jeffrey Ball This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Standing on Shingletown Ridge and …
Sea Ice Alaska, barren of sea ice, saw its hottest July in 125 yearsgrist.org - Oliver Milman This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A heat wave pulsating through the …
Urban Agriculture This farmer helps undocumented families find communitygrist.org - Zoe Sayler In Chelsea, Massachusetts — a 2-square-mile chunk of mostly industrial land across the river from Boston — a tiny urban farm sits in a gravel parking …
Play buttonClimate Change IPCC report: Planting trees isn’t enough to save us from the climate crisisgrist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino The conventional wisdom is that planting trees will save us from the ever-encroaching threat of climate change. Alas, the conventional wisdom is …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoPlay buttonSwordfish Climate change is making it more dangerous to eat certain fishgrist.org - Molly Enking It may not be a cataclysmic turning point in the climate crisis, but global warming has officially come for your fish tacos. According to a new study …
Carbon A hot planet threatens food and water more than realized, IPCC saysgrist.org - Rebecca Leber This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As the planet warms, parts of …
Play buttonLyft Uber and Lyft admit they’re terrible for traffic, finallygrist.org - Miyo McGinn Earlier this week, Uber and Lyft shared the findings of an internal study confirming what anyone who has ever had to commute in a major metro area …
Recycling I want to be a parent, but how can I when things seem so awful?grist.org - Eve Andrews Q. Dear Umbra: How can I possibly raise a kid with all of this gestures to everything burning, flooding, and exploding across the world going on? It’s …
