GristSonny Perdue Trump officials are on a tear with silly climate commentsgrist.org - Miyo McGinn Another day, another top Trump administration official denying climate change. In a sequel to yesterday’s clip of Mike Pence’s acrobatic climate …
GristBig Little Lies What truths can we learn from Big Little Lies’ climate change episode?grist.org - Annelise McGough HBO is done with Game of Thrones — finally!!! Don’t @ me! — which means we can all get back to focusing on the network’s best show: Big Little Lies. …
GristDemocratic National Committee The fight for a climate debate, explainedgrist.org - Jesse Nichols Candidates and activists are pushing for a Democratic debate on climate change. The DNC says no. What gives?
GristMetals Clean energy requires rare metals. Should we mine the ocean floor to get them?grist.org - Leta Dickinson Our need for metals runs deep. How deep, you might ask? Why, up to 16,000 feet deep, in the form of potato-sized lumps of metal lying on the seafloor …
GristPolar Bears Dozens of public health groups call for urgent climate actiongrist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino Over 70 medical and public health organizations called on elected (and hoping-to-be-elected) officials Monday morning to commit to combating what …
GristEverglades As Democrats prep for debate in Florida, a 17,000-acre fire burns in the Evergladesgrist.org - Zoya Teirstein On Wednesday, the first Democratic debate will take place in Miami, Florida. The candidates will engage in what is sure to be a heated conversation …
GristSouth Philadelphia Residents say they’ve already had enough as investigation starts into Philadelphia refinery firegrist.org - Rachel Ramirez When a loud blast awakened Irene Russell at 4 a.m. Friday morning, she thought someone was trying to break into her family’s South Philadelphia home. …
GristMike Pence Watch this cringe-worthy clip of Vice President Mike Pence dodging a climate questiongrist.org - Zoya Teirstein Vice President Mike Pence was on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, and things got … heated. “Do you think human-induced climate emergency is a …
GristJay Inslee Watch out, Big Oil. Jay Inslee’s back at it again with a greenhouse gas fee.grist.org - Zoya Teirstein Adding to his growing stack of policies aimed at averting the climate crisis, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, one of the 23 Democrats running for …
GristNorth Carolina This North Carolina lawmaker is trying to slam the brakes on wind. Again.grist.org - Naveena Sadasivam North Carolina State Senator Harry Brown just doesn’t like wind. Two years after the Republican succeeded in stopping the construction of new …
GristWater Desalination plants are here, but they’re not solving the water crisis yetgrist.org - Jim Robbins This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along …
GristRace & Ethnicity New report: How green orgs can retain diverse staffgrist.org - Justine Calma People of color are among the biggest advocates for the environment — after all, many of them live in areas disproportionately impacted by pollution …
GristCarbon It’s always summer now — so dress like itgrist.org - Zoe Sayler It’s the first day of summer. In case you haven’t gotten the memo: You don’t want to be caught dead in carbon-intensive fashion right now. …
GristSeattle, WA Seattle is already prepping for another hellish summer of smokegrist.org - Zoya Teirstein In Seattle, blissfully blue summer skies are usually the reward you get for suffering through months of clouds and soggy weather. But given climate …
GristFracking Growing body of science links fracking to harm to healthgrist.org - Molly Enking There’s a steadily growing body of science on the connection between fracking and human health, according to a new analysis published by a group of …
GristFish Warmer waters mess with the Northeast’s cod-given right to fishgrist.org - Elia Kabanov Fishing has been the economic and cultural pillar for many coastal towns along the Northeast coast for generations. But a warmer climate threatens …
GristOregon Legislative Assembly Oregon Republicans go into hiding to avoid voting on climate billgrist.org - Kate Yoder Oregon’s Senate Republicans have left the statehouse. No, they’re not on vacation. They’re in hiding. All 12 have fled to prevent a vote on a …
GristCurriculum Development Teaching kids about climate science might not be enoughgrist.org - Zoe Sayler It’s a daunting task, keeping a bunch of 12-year-olds interested in something for an entire school year. The cutest, whiniest boy bands barely manage …
GristRefugees What is a ‘climate refugee’ and how many are there?grist.org - Eve Andrews You actually raise two important questions here: One, do we know how many people have been forced to relocate due to climate change? And two, what …
GristGlaciers Cold War-era spy satellites have a lot to tell us about the changing climategrist.org - Molly Enking Dead bodies starting to thaw on Mount Everest, flooding from glacial lakes, dams bursting and destroying villages: This is a picture of global …
GristClimate Change Can climate change be stopped? Here’s what the Democratic presidential candidates say.grist.org - Zoya Teirstein Can climate change be stopped? That’s a question the New York Times posed to 21 of the 22 Democratic candidates running for president. In a series of …
GristEPA Trump’s climate ‘plan’ is finally here, and it’s already headed to courtgrist.org - Justine Calma The Trump administration just placed a nail in the coffin of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which had for the first time required states to set …
GristGreen New Deal For the Sunrise Movement, 2020 is just the beginninggrist.org - Zoya Teirstein In the run-up to the 2016 election, a small group of climate activists were busy devising a strategy to catapult climate change to the forefront of …
GristThe Arctic Climate change could ruin archeological sites before we get the chance to study themgrist.org - Elia Kabanov If you like clams, you’re not alone. For the past 164,000 years, people have used shellfish as a food source. We know this thanks to shell middens …
GristAndrew Cuomo Cuomo guts key labor provisions in last-minute changes to New York’s landmark climate billgrist.org - Justine Calma Anyone watching the climate bill negotiations in Albany this week could be suffering some whiplash. On Monday, it seemed that New York state lawmakers …
GristAntarctica Boaty McBoatface makes huge discovery about sea level rise on maiden voyagegrist.org - Paola Rosa-Aquino Boaty McBoatface, our favorite British research submersible, is back in the news — not, this time, for its amazing name, but as a result of its …
GristFlorida State University Florida’s summer of slime turned its politics upside downgrist.org - Rebecca Renner It was a sweltering late summer day in southern Florida when Becky Harris took her dogs to run along the bank of the St. Lucie River. Her white …
GristTexas Mess with a Texas pipeline now and you could end up a felongrist.org - Naveena Sadasivam Texas now has one of the harshest laws in the country to protect its oil and gas operations from protesters. Damaging a pipeline in the Lone Star …
GristAndrew Cuomo On the road to the Green New Deal, New York’s latest climate legislation may be the first stopgrist.org - Justine Calma If the national Green New Deal is the dashing young hare in the race to enact sweeping climate law, then New York’s Climate and Community Protection …
GristFracking Pennsylvanians demand a fracking halt until rare childhood cancers are investigatedgrist.org - Molly Enking After a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette investigation identified 47 cases childhood cancer—most of them very rare—in several rural Pennsylvania counties, …
