Environment

Deirdre Macnab was reading her local newspaper this spring when she learned that Rio Blanco County, where she lives in northwest Colorado, had taken a decisive side in a major…

From the snow-swept territories of Canada to the lush basins of the Ecuadorian Amazon and the rugged mountains of Nepal, Indigenous lands are increasingly on the frontline of planetary change.…

For Wilson-Johnson, who grew up in the city, the experience of a Nebraska summer has fundamentally shifted. She fondly remembers a time when summer nights brought a natural, refreshing cool,…

Last week, another federal judge blocked New York’s landmark “climate superfund law,” delivering a significant setback to the state’s ambitious attempt to make major fossil fuel companies pay billions of…

It didn’t take long for prospectors and local miners to stake their claims on public lands in southeast Utah that were recently stripped of their protected status within the Bears…

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House last January, he made it abundantly clear to America’s institutions of higher education that federal financial support would henceforth come with…

If you scroll down through the "Carbon Majors" database—the roster of 178 corporate producers collectively responsible for the lion’s share of the world’s historical fossil fuel emissions—you will eventually encounter…

This story is a partnership between Grist and Chicago Public Media, a public media company serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Every single year, climate-driven disasters force millions of people to…

The first and most important thing that Brightline wants the traveling public to know about its recent financial restructuring is that the trains will continue to run without interruption. "Business…

While prominent tech executives and industry leaders frequently command headlines by grandstanding about the long-term, existential dangers that artificial intelligence superintelligence could theoretically pose to humanity, a group of former…