Museums are reckoning with their own carbon footprints as they work to safeguard their collections from heat and storms.
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/
Grist writer Tik Root documented his experiences updating his home with cleaner, more climate-friendly systems.
https://grist.org/looking-forward/a-journey-into-home-electrification/
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/
Biomaterials companies are using new materials to create high-performance textiles — without plastic.
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/
The Biden administration's LNG pause won't affect projects planned in Brownsville, Texas. The community is still waging its own defense.
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.
Excerpts from a Q&A with bestselling degrowth author Kohei Saito.
https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/
Does cringe comedy have anything to teach climate scientists?
https://grist.org/culture/tim-robinson-cringe-comedy-climate-science/
This Valentine's Day, we've collected tales of love and friendship that began with a shared passion for climate work.
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/
The resulting costs to society could be as high as $8 billion.
“What would it look like to support trusted community spaces and almost create a microcosm of the world that we want to live in?”