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As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation to health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.
A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.
Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie Baronet-Israel allegedly hiked the price of a home they were renting out in the ...
As countries continue to emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases, a warmer planet is fueling more severe hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts, and temperatures. Responding to — and rebuilding from — ...
This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.
As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.
In our new series, The Disaster Economy, Grist exposes the systems that turn recovery into a marketplace — and gives readers like you the tools to navigate and challenge them.
New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River The research highlights the groundwater issues complicating the Colorado River's already strained water supply.
It is the state’s largest ever settlement for “forever chemicals,” holding DuPont and its spin-offs accountable for ...
Community groups, businesses, and consumers say projects face an uncertain future after Republicans slashed renewable energy ...
Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “ shall make every effort ” ...
Research shows 40% of small businesses do not reopen after a natural disaster and another 25% shutter within a year of the ...