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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America's drinking water of PFAS

Another climate tipping point to worry about: Plankton

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there — unless you’re a California homeowner

Taking on big coal to protect Navajo water

The global treaty to save the ozone layer has also slowed Arctic ice melt

At last, states reach a Colorado River deal: Pay farmers not to farm

Summer watch list: Climate-conscious movies and TV

Plastic bottles harm human health at every stage of their life cycle

New York’s public housing is sinking — literally

Study: A third of the West's burned forests can be traced to fossil fuel companies

This LA teen is suing her school district — and the USDA — to promote nondairy milk

It's near certain that the next 5 years will be the hottest yet

Boots on the Ground

Near a polluting California port, a teen's path to studying climate health

A simple way to prevent heaps of methane pollution: Composting

Washington state now has the nation’s strongest law against toxic cosmetics

More than 150 countries agree to ban 3 toxic chemicals

Extreme heat will take an unequal toll in tribal jails

A theater kid who decided to take climate stories mainstream

A landmark investigation brings environmental justice to rural Alabama

Despite what you may think, ethanol isn't dead yet

Chile's national lithium strategy raises questions about the environmental and social costs of EVs

The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis

The Water Brokers

Why this successful climate writer quit to become an electrician

Major hurricanes expected to increase in 2023, researchers forecast

Foraging New York City’s wild, edible margins with Journei Bimwala

Foraging tips from expert and TikTok star Alexis Nikole Nelson

The very bad math behind the Colorado River crisis

The Supreme Court unleashed a flood of lawsuits against Big Oil

How foraging for edible plants helped me connect with my roots

In 'Cancer Alley,' a teacher called to fight

How a looming El Niño could fuel the spread of infectious disease

A new bill in Oregon could target environmental protesters as terrorists

The first natural-gas ban in the US just got shot down

A toxin banned decades ago is found in one of the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean

In Sweden, a proposed iron mine threatens a World Heritage Site, and the culture that made it

The largest global gathering of Indigenous leaders begins today at the UN. Here’s what you need to know.

Banks with ‘net zero’ pledges are among the top funders of fossil fuels

How the world's favorite conservation model was built on colonial violence

Inside climate activists’ uneasy relationship with ‘net-zero’

How climate change is making it easier to hit home runs

EPA announces rules curbing cancer-causing pollution from chemical plants

Study: Even a small increase in pollution raises risk for dementia

What Chicago's new mayor means for environmental justice

From peak to plummet in 15 years: Coal continues its precipitous decline

Radical eco-activists have made it into mainstream fiction. Is reality next?

Biden administration releases road map to scale up nuclear, hydrogen, and energy storage

How climate change made the Mississippi tornadoes more likely

Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

How the natural gas industry cozies up to utility regulators

A spill outside Philadelphia adds to the growing list of chemical accidents this year

The IPCC says we need to phase down fossil fuels, fast. Here’s how the US could do it.

Does your community have lead in its soil? Here’s what to do.

The Ground Beneath Their Feet

Welcome to Utah, where pipeline protests could now get you at least five years in prison

Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

Oscars goody bags contained 'unseemly' gift: certificates for Aboriginal land

The dubious economic calculus behind the Willow project

Rich countries export twice as much plastic waste to the developing world as previously thought

Climate change is supercharging floods and droughts, new research shows

EPA proposes first-ever limits on PFAS in drinking water

Biden approves Willow oil project in Alaska despite campaign pledge

Biden administration pledges $25 million to bring bison back to tribal lands

How Washington raised $300 million for climate action from polluters

Washed Away

An Alabama clean water fund discriminated against Black communities, complaint alleges

The hazards of gas stoves were flagged by the industry — and hidden — 50 years ago

One year in, the toxic legacy of war in Ukraine comes into view

These companies lead the pack of retailers emitting millions of pounds of CO2 through shipping

In a growing petrochemical hub, the East Palestine derailment triggers 'an uneasy feeling'

Indigenous youth occupy Norwegian energy office to protest illegal wind farm

A new alliance for ‘high quality’ carbon removal highlights tensions within the industry

A looming El Niño could give us a preview of life at 1.5C of warming

As Louisiana's coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too

Report: World's fossil fuel subsidies surged to $1 trillion after Ukraine invasion

How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act

'This is absurd': Train cars that derailed in Ohio were labeled non-hazardous

Just how good were Exxon’s climate projections?

Global corporations’ climate pledges are ‘misleading,’ not credible

The ‘Last Ice Area’ is already disappearing

Documents show how a pipeline company paid Minnesota millions to police protests

Biden spotlights climate victories in State of the Union. But where do we go from here?

A major dairy company plans to slash methane emissions — but there’s an elephant in the room

Climate denial campaign goes retro with new textbook

How the Supreme Court could finally force Big Oil to face trial

Exxon reports record profits, doubles down on fossil fuels

EPA issues rare veto, halting Alaska’s Pebble mine

How a defunct Trump policy still threatens Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp

Why Biden's new protections don’t eliminate threats to the Tongass National Forest

Cities + Solutions

A zero emissions future without the mining boom

Britain’s protected natural areas are failing to stop biodiversity loss

What 5,000-year-old skeletons tell us about living with climate change

California's storms are almost over. Its reckoning with flood insurance is about to begin.

Thousands of protestors fought the expansion of a German coal mine – in vain

Methane’s life, death, and secret second life

30x30 is conservation's flashy new goal. Now countries need to figure out what it actually means.

U.S. regulators hinted at a possible ban on gas stoves. The debate boiled over.

To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians

EPA’s proposed air pollution standards for soot could save thousands of lives

Brazil keeps protecting Indigenous land in the Amazon. It’s not stopping deforestation.

Will California's 'atmospheric river' storms end the drought?

A new EPA proposal is reigniting a debate about what counts as ‘renewable’

Europe kicks off 2023 with a record-setting heat wave

Avatar: The Way of Water or how not to make Indigenous futurism movies

Climate activists are getting disruptive. They don’t expect you to like it.

The case for spending less money on holiday gifts

Heatflation, overshoot, soup throwers: Grist’s picks for words of the year

Amazon’s plastic packaging waste grew 18% in 2021

Strange diseases are spreading in Blackfeet Country. Can dogs track down the culprits?

23 Predictions for 2023

How a new subsidy for 'green hydrogen' could set off a carbon bomb

Wall Street’s biggest names are backing off their climate commitments

African countries are tapping their fossil fuel wealth. Why aren't they getting rich?

Pawpaws, America's latest fruit craze, are being threatened by climate change

A tiny Wisconsin town tried to stop pollution from factory farms. Then it got sued.

Beyond solar: Here's what the clean energy future might look like

Lessons from the World Cup: How a changing climate is changing sports

The fossil fuel origins of 'gaslighting'

As the outdoor industry ditches ‘forever chemicals,’ REI lags behind

Planning your 2023 travel? Skip these places in order to save them

Inside the COP27 fight to get wealthy nations to pay climate reparations

COP27 is over. What did it achieve?

Qatar claims the 2022 FIFA World Cup is carbon neutral. It’s not.

Experts say COP27's ‘plastic waste pyramid’ is focusing on the wrong solution

These 15 meat and dairy companies emit almost as much methane as the EU

It's not just Coke: Corporations have co-opted the UN climate talks

What the midterm elections mean for the climate -- so far

From New York to Texas, climate candidates are gaining momentum in local races

These midterm races could be pivotal for U.S. climate action

Report: 90% of all U.S. coal plants are contaminating groundwater

Adaptation, loss and damage, and African oil: What’s at stake at COP27?

Oregon tried to inform residents about wildfire risk. The backlash was explosive.

Feds to Colorado River states: reduce water usage, or we will do it for you

Democrats passed a climate bill. Why aren't midterm ads touting it?

Report: Global climate ambitions still fall short ahead of COP27

Grist 50 Nominations

The Cochise County Groundwater Wars

380 million tons of plastic are made every year. None of it is truly recyclable.

Congress is spending millions on new air monitors. Will it make a difference?

The West's biggest source of renewable energy depends on water. Will it survive the drought?

Study: Climate anxiety is spreading all over the planet

Will offshore wind bring ‘good-paying, union jobs’? Texas workers aren’t so sure.

Report: Extreme heat will hit urban poor the hardest, worsening inequality

Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy nations like it or not

Hawaii to US Navy: Quit polluting our waters

The world spends billions to ‘protect’ Indigenous land. Only 17% goes to Indigenous peoples.

The 'hurricane tax': How Ian is pushing Florida's home insurance market toward collapse

This storyteller's epic tale of oceanic transformation is also a call to action

As permafrost thaws, a Biden-supported drilling plan is on unstable ground

Hurricane Ian was a powerful storm. Real estate developers made it a catastrophe.

'It makes climate change real': How carbon emissions got rebranded as 'pollution'

As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, Florida faces historic storm surge

'Nature-rinsing': How polluters use the beauty of nature to clean up their image

Flood. Retreat. Repeat.

Fields of Blue

Pets eat a lot of meat. Feeding them insects could lower their carbon pawprint.

The Climate Future Cookbook

The world may have already crossed 5 climate tipping points

In Nevada, a monument to violence built on stolen land

How Democrats came around to cutting taxes to save the climate

Prison air conditioning is coming too slowly for those who need it most

Jackson’s water crisis was triggered by floods and compounded by racism

Friday night fish frys define Wisconsin. What happens when climate change adjusts the menu?

It’s official: California is phasing out gas-powered cars by 2035

People doubt their actions affect climate change. Is that a bad thing?

After FEMA overhaul, hundreds of thousands of Americans are forgoing federal flood insurance

The problem with corporate pledges to protect abortion access and the climate

The temperature threshold the human body can’t survive

Deer are threatening American forests. Is more hunting the solution?

Pipe dreams: Why far-fetched western water projects won’t go away

Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests

The Joy Issue

How climate change spurs megadroughts

US Senate passes historic climate bill

Humidity, the mosquito, and me

In defense of darkness

How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

Saying goodbye to the dangerous, alluring scent of gasoline

Texas is skirting federal environmental law to push for highway expansion

Pennsylvania just lost a key tool to address it's abandoned oil well problem

Biden calls climate change an ‘emergency,’ but stops short of declaring it

A Native Corporation wants to mine gold on the Kuskokwim River. Alaska Natives say no.

Without Congress, what can Biden do to stem the climate crisis?

Cryptomining uses a ‘disturbing’ amount of energy, lawmakers find

What happened to the 'war on coal' in West Virginia?

Five illnesses spreading in a hotter world

Olúfémi O. Táíwò’s theory of everything

Summer has transformed into ‘danger season,’ scientists warn

Meet the group lobbying against climate regulations — using your utility bill

A Texas county wants to punish polluters. The state won’t let it.

Interior Department to phase out single-use plastics on all public lands

When the heat is unbearable but there’s nowhere to go

In Hawaii, youth are suing over climate inaction

What the queer community brings to the fight for climate justice

How outdated zoning codes are fueling the sprawl of e-commerce warehouses

Think climate action is expensive? Inaction could cost $178 trillion.

Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts

Study: Warming temperatures are eroding our ability to sleep

Jessica Reznicek set fire to Dakota Access Pipeline construction. Is she a terrorist?

This educator designs curricula to make nature inclusive for all kids

What overturning Roe v. Wade means for pregnant people in pollution hotspots

Welcome to the Great Indoors

Community Power New Jersey: Our Streets

The US only recycled about 5% of plastic waste last year

Apple just launched its first self-repair program. Other tech companies are about to follow.

What I learned from pruning Milwaukee’s orphaned fruit trees

Study: Climate change is creating disease hotspots

It’s raining harder than ever. New research says climate change is to blame.

Indigenous leaders convene at UN to push for human rights protections

One activist’s case for creating an ‘Environmental Justice Day’

How rights of nature and wild rice could stop a pipeline

Apply for Grist summer 2022 fellowships

Rich countries are illegally exporting plastic trash to poor countries, data suggests

How a town tethered to coral learned to save its reef — and itself

As utility-scale renewables expand, some Midwest farmers are pushing back

Indigenous people are being killed to ‘protect’ a Congolese park

‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future

WATCH: The deadly acid refineries are reluctant to quit

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Rappahannock Tribe gets 465 acres of land back on the Chesapeake Bay

Grist 50 2022: Meet the Fixers

Deaths have spiked in this polluted port community. COVID is only part of the story.

A logging loophole is clear-cutting the Tongass National Forest

Lake Powell water crisis is about to be an energy crisis

Jane Fonda’s new climate PAC is taking on fossil fuel-backed politicians

How a breakthrough in geothermal could change our energy grid

How 5G could send weather forecasting back to the 1970s

The Air Force wants to blow up toxic military waste on a beach in Guam

Amazon rainforest is nearing critical ‘tipping point’

Deep-sea mining could begin next year. Here’s why ocean experts are calling for a moratorium.

For mental health, landmark climate report spells disaster

How to Dress for the Planet

Do salmon have rights?

Time is running out to adapt to climate change, new IPCC report says

The environmental costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Climate fiction is the future. Write it.

The campus divestment movement has a sophisticated new legal strategy

The Midwest defined itself by its winters. What happens when they disappear?

There are ‘forever chemicals’ in beef now

This iron and water battery could power a more renewable grid

How the view from space might be key to saving the planet

Lessons from New York: What makes a community turn against climate adaptation?

US flood risk is about to explode — but not for the reasons you think

Kanye West and the dark twisted fantasy of shale country chic

Undocumented workers are cleaning up our climate disasters. A new bill would protect them.

Yes, there’s a climate change version of Wordle now

Why doesn’t every big box store have rooftop solar?

Pipelines keep robbing the land long after the bulldozers leave

The What’s Next Issue

Ghosts of Polluters Past

It’s alive: The groundbreaking research on the microbes in wildfire smoke

New official tallies show 2021 was another year of record warming

Coal was dying. Then 2021 happened.

The country’s biggest solar farm is coming to one of the coal-friendliest states

In Michigan, a new housing project shows that sustainable development isn’t only for the rich

New York City bans gas heating and stoves from new buildings

22 Predictions for 2022

Why tornadoes are the hardest disasters to link to climate change

Who gets help after a hurricane or flood? FEMA will start tracking it by race

Black and Latino neighborhoods pay more for energy despite far lower emissions

The best thing my mentor ever taught me

Americans claim to idolize Thanksgiving leftovers. The piles of food waste say otherwise.

Deb Haaland is taking on racist names on federal lands

Biden proposes 20-year drilling ban near sacred Indigenous site

Flint water crisis victims reach $626 million settlement

At COP26, 7 countries initiate the beginning of the end of fossil fuels

20,000 deaths and counting: As mass transit stagnates, US traffic deaths surge

The renewable future is being built on exploitation, too

Report: Poor countries need 5 to 10 times more funding to adapt to climate risks they did not create

In a first, the EPA will regulate methane from existing oil and gas wells

New York rejects two new gas power plants as ‘inconsistent’ with climate law

COP26: Goals, who’s going, and why it matters

Study: Indigenous tribes lost 99% of land to colonization

In Detroit, a push to help Black farmers purchase land

In Chicago, cyclists in Black neighborhoods are over-policed and under-protected

The US was on the verge of passing real climate policy. Then Manchin happened.

Two years and a pandemic later, climate protests return to Washington

Facing floods and fires, undocumented immigrants have nowhere to turn for help

What happened to incarcerated people during Hurricane Ida

Line 5 will cost $41 billion in climate damages

2020 was the deadliest year for environmental activists. Here’s why.

Illinois signs landmark clean energy law

A deadly fungal disease on the rise in the West has experts worried

Study: Indigenous resistance has staved off 25% of U.S. and Canada’s annual emissions

Ida left behind a water crisis in the Gulf

For a livable future, 60% of oil and gas must stay in the ground

How climate change supercharged Hurricane Ida

Summer Dreams

What does 1.5 degrees of warming really look like?

The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Subscribe to The Burning Issue

What happens if you breathe in wildfire smoke?

A Florida city wanted to move away from fossil fuels. The state just made sure it couldn’t.

Traffic collisions disproportionately kill Black Americans

‘A terrible idea:’ Why fire scientists want you to skip the fireworks this Fourth of July

The new frontlines of climate change are everywhere.

Your city is more segregated than it was in 1990, new study shows

This gas utility has agreed to stop building a contentious Brooklyn pipeline — for now

Decades after Watts revolted, the Black neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the cost is steep

Are white people bad for the environment?

Biden’s offshore wind bonanza is coming to New York and New Jersey

Kamala Harris told migrants ‘do not come’ but didn’t address the biggest cause of displacement

The Line 3 pipeline protests are about much more than climate change

It’s not just your imagination — ticks are out of control this year

How Congress continues to whittle away at a critical environmental policy

How many people has climate change killed already?

Can the ‘right to a healthy environment’ stop Exxon’s expansion in Guyana?

Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s $820 billion.

After three hurricanes, this Louisiana city faces another weather catastrophe

Study: Climate change to blame for $8 billion of Hurricane Sandy damages

This power plant stopped burning fossil fuels. Then Bitcoin came along.

Rising temperatures could make Michigan the next great wine hub

What do voting restrictions and anti-protest laws have in common?

There’s federal money available to house the homeless. No one’s taking it.

In America’s cities, inequality is engrained in the trees

These 5 people are building the green cities of the future

Is your home in a flood-prone zone? In most states, you won’t find out until after you buy.

‘Climate emergency’: Hawaii is the first state to call it like it is

Biden’s climate mantra? ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’

Biden’s quiet plan to prepare the U.S. for the health impacts of climate change

AOC’s plan for a 1.5 million-strong Civilian Climate Corps, explained

4 in 10 Americans breathe polluted air, with people of color hit hardest

The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever

America’s largest coal miners’ union supports clean energy (with conditions)

Biden wants to build 500,000 EV charging stations. Where will they all go?

Deb Haaland’s top priorities for Interior Department: climate change and environmental justice

America’s biggest jails are frontline environmental justice communities

The Permian Basin is ground zero for a billion-dollar surge of zombie oil wells

The secret ingredient in Paris’ green public housing

Grist 50: 2021

How do we doom the planet? Let Saul Griffith count the ways.

Dr. Robert Bullard, the ‘father of environmental justice,’ is watching the movement grow up

At 19, she’s a veteran activist. Here’s how she’s staying in the fight.

Meteorologist, climate expert, zombie slayer: a Q&A with J. Marshall Shepherd

Stacey Abrams helped Georgia go blue. Now she wants it to go green.

The ageless and arresting activism of Jane Fonda

With a new look, Grist recommits to climate, justice, and solutions

Introducing our star judges for Imagine 2200, Fix’s cli-fi contest

Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs

Introducing Imagine 2200: Our new cli-fi contest

The crisis in Texas underscores the deadly risks when the grid goes down

Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps comes straight out of the New Deal

AOC, Sanders, and Blumenauer press Biden to declare a ‘climate emergency’

These flashcards will help you memorize Biden’s climate team

How Donald Trump mastered the art of repeal

Will states use the Capitol riot to crack down on pipeline protests?

Why is cottagecore so white?

Can a city truly be 100% renewable? It’s complicated.

What the Georgia Senate candidates think about climate change

Only 2020 could bring us words like these

Why do I love the mall when I hate consumerism?

Is climate change coming for the Christmas rom-com?

Everything I learned from ‘The O.C.’ in 2020

My Christmassy hometown is looking less and less like a winter wonderland.

21 Predictions for 2021

The buy-nothing gift guide that will get you through 2021

Oil and gas vets want to clean up the industry’s mess, one well at a time

Companies say they are going net-zero. Can we trust them?

Biden defeats Trump, ending 4 years of environmental destruction

2020 Vision

Temperature Check: What Wakanda can teach us about climate change

4 years of Trump and climate change, in 8 minutes

How to build a greener country in 8 simple steps.

Outside Biden’s town hall, middle school activists demand climate action

An antidote to toxic masculinity: the moss bros of TikTok

It’s been 12 years since debate moderators asked a question about climate change

How did the 2020 wildfire season get so bad?

VOICES: In Louisiana, grief surges with another storm. So does hope.

What’s next for climate and racial justice? Four experts weigh in.

An illustrated guide to police brutality and pollution

How the fossil fuel industry drives climate change and police brutality

Inside the green construction job that workers are dying to leave

What lessons does New Orleans have for coastal cities?

The 2020 hurricane season is tearing through the alphabet at ‘LMNOP’ speed

This Black community can’t escape sugar industry pollution. Even their Florida school district is in on it.

Apple’s Lisa Jackson on leadership, justice, and generations of change

Extreme heat is worse in redlined neighborhoods

Find your flock: A birder and a hiker talk race and equity in the outdoors

Summer vacation is broke. We're fixing it.

Exclusive: Kamala Harris to introduce comprehensive environmental justice bill in Senate

What stands in the way of all those climate plans? The election — and the filibuster.

When it comes to sustainability, the path forward might mean looking back.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez on how to get your friends to care about the climate

These proud LGBTQ adventurers are putting the ‘out’ in outdoors

This federal permit used to fast-track pipelines. Now it’s threatening them.

How will public transit change post-COVID? We had 5 experts weigh in.

Rethinking the role of government with an equity expert

My favorite sustainable clothing brand is racist. What now?

Opinion: If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy

Supreme Court clears way for Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross Appalachian Trail

What lockdown? Traffic returns, and so do carbon emissions

What commuting after COVID could look like

Jane Fonda & Jerome Foster II in conversation

Why is everything falling apart in 2020?

Responding to protests, green groups reckon with a racist past

Protests are bringing attention to the ‘everyday violence’ faced by black Americans

Shift Happens newsletter: Why local food matters

5 experts predict the future of renewable energy amid coronavirus

Coronavirus is coming for wildland firefighters. They’re not ready.

Here’s how coronavirus affected carbon emissions in every state

She puts (robot) eyes on the street to keep people safer

We’re running out of time to flatten the curve — for climate change