EartherClimate Change We Might Be Just a Few Years Away From an Ice-Free Arctic Within this decade, the Arctic may see days with no floating ice. By Passant Rabie Published March 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEnergy Washers and Dryers Are About to Get Way More Efficient New guidelines will save people $2.2 billion a year in utility costs and eliminate 71 million tons of planet-warming CO2 emissions. Tik Root, Grist Published March 4, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Scientists Suggest Dehydrating a Layer of Earth’s Atmosphere to Fight Global Warming The latest extreme geoengineering scheme involves sucking water out of the stratosphere. By Passant Rabie Published February 28, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEnvironmental Justice Buried Nuclear Waste From the Cold War Could Resurface as Ice Sheets Melt Decades after the U.S. buried nuclear waste abroad, climate change could unearth it. Anita Hofschneider, Grist Published February 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change It Looks a Lot Like Taylor Swift Had Two Private Jets for Her Super Bowl Flight Thousands of people tracked the singer's flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles before the big game. By Jody Serrano Updated February 10, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather Category 6 Hurricanes Are Already Here Some scientists say Category 5 is not enough to describe the monster storms that have battered us in recent years. Kate Yoder & Jake Bittle, Grist Published February 9, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEarth Science Dramatic Iceland Eruption Photos Show Lava Spreading Across Pristine Snow A volcano in southwestern Iceland burst to life, covering a main road in red-hot lava. By Isaac Schultz Published February 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherExtreme Weather Photos: California’s Coastline Under Siege by Atmospheric River Heavy winds and rain battered cities from San Francisco to San Diego. By Isaac Schultz Published February 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
Earther Banning Private Jets and Going to a 4-Day Work Week Are Radical—and Popular A Q&A with Kohei Saito, the author who introduced ‘degrowth’ to a mass audience. Akielly Hu, Grist Published February 2, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEarth Science World’s Largest Iceberg Has Officially Gone Rogue The mega iceberg came loose in November, but the latest satellite imagery shows A23a moving away from Antarctic waters. By George Dvorsky Published January 26, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherGarbage Billions of Plastic Bags Avoided Since New Bans, Report Finds "People realize quickly it’s easy to live without plastic bags." Joseph Winters, Grist Published January 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherEnvironmental Justice A Year After the Toxic Train Derailment, Is East Palestine Safe? “It looked like ‘Starry Night.' It would be beautiful if it weren’t so toxic and deadly.” Eve Andrews, Grist Published January 19, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherCities These U.S. Cities May Depopulate by 2100, Researchers Say Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and others are likely to shrink in the coming decades, according to a new study. By Isaac Schultz Published January 18, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherGarbage A Mountain of Used Clothes Appeared in Chile’s Desert. Then It Went Up in Flames Tons of discarded clothing from brands like Adidas, H&M, Ralph Lauren, and Zara went ablaze. Julia Shipley & Muriel Alarcón, Grist Published January 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change The Ominous Link Between Rare Disease Outbreaks in 2023 The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future. Zoya Teirstein, Grist Published December 26, 2023 | Comments (0)
EartherEnvironmental Policy California Could Solve Its Water Woes by Flooding Its Best Farmland Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. Their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers. Jake Bittle, Grist Published December 21, 2023 | Comments (0)
EartherEnergy There’s a Billion-Dollar Industry Between You and FEMA’s Flood Insurance Cutting payments to brokers or selling directly to consumers could save millions. FEMA and insurance companies say it’s not that straightforward. Tik Root, Grist Published December 12, 2023 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change What Would Happen If Everyone Suddenly Stopped Eating Meat? Answering that question shows just how tricky it would be to drop meat altogether. Max Graham, Grist Published December 1, 2023 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Most People Globally Support ‘Whatever It Takes’ to Limit Climate Change But there’s a disconnect between what politicians say and what the public wants. Kate Yoder, Grist Published November 30, 2023 | Comments (0)
EartherClimate Change Why ‘Climate Havens’ Could Be Closer to Home Than You’d Think A refuge isn't something nature hands us, but something we have to build ourselves. Kate Yoder, Grist Published November 21, 2023 | Comments (0)
