Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you’d expect.
https://grist.org/video/parasite-climate-change-ecosystem-health-science/
A quarter of marine life depends on coral reefs. So do 1 billion people.
https://grist.org/science/coral-reefs-bleaching-climate-tipping-point/
A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident.
https://grist.org/science/the-more-plastic-companies-make-the-more-they-pollute/
“Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”
https://grist.org/agriculture/climate-change-tree-urban-city-arborists-heat-drought-native-species/
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change.
https://grist.org/health/pediatricians-advised-talk-patients-parents-climate-change/
Scientists say it's shaping up to be the worst one yet.
https://grist.org/science/world-4th-coral-bleaching-event-official-climate/
Acidifying oceans are leading to sensory loss in fish. Scientists fear people might be next.
https://grist.org/science/climate-change-is-rewiring-fish-brains-probably-ours-too/
Aerial monitoring finds they emit methane at levels at least 40 percent higher than previously reported to the EPA.
https://grist.org/science/us-landfills-emit-far-more-methane-than-previously-known/
A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?
https://grist.org/agriculture/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading-fescue/
A community-based approach to restoration combined with an ingenious device can bring back reefs traumatized by dynamite fishing.
https://grist.org/science/coral-reefs-can-rebuild-in-just-four-years-with-a-star-and-a-little-care/
Researchers say the U.N.'s global plastics treaty must reduce production and protect public health.
https://grist.org/science/plastic-chemicals-are-inescapable-and-theyre-messing-with-our-hormones/
So-called rain-on-snow events accelerate ice loss and trigger flooding, landslides, and avalanches, and create problems for wild animals and the Indigenous peoples who depend on them.
https://grist.org/science/rain-comes-to-the-arctic-with-a-cascade-of-troubling-changes/
Nearly a century after we almost hunted them to extinction, fewer than 360 right whales remain.
https://grist.org/solutions/stronger-speed-limits-save-right-whales-one-step-closer/
The question of whether humans created a new epoch has been stirring up drama for almost 25 years.
https://grist.org/culture/anthropocene-vote-contentious-history/
A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public.
https://grist.org/accountability/big-oil-climate-lawsuits-trials-attribution-science-exxon/
Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.
Aerosol pollutants have masked the effects of global warming. Without them, the U.S. is about to get a lot wetter.
Does cringe comedy have anything to teach climate scientists?
https://grist.org/culture/tim-robinson-cringe-comedy-climate-science/
A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry.
https://grist.org/technology/taylor-swifts-super-bowl-flight-shows-whats-wrong-with-carbon-removal/
A 62-mile-long curtain moored to the Amundsen Sea bed in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere, scientists say.
https://grist.org/science/how-do-you-stop-a-glacier-from-melting-put-up-an-underwater-curtain/