Grist

The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.

When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

A $150 million “catastrophe bond” will help with hurricane recovery, but experts hope financial markets will invest more in adaptation.

Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.

Will the new Democratic public service commissioners advance clean energy and shake up next year’s midterms?

“The entire Paris Agreement experiment is being challenged.”

Tuesday's election results suggest energy costs may be moving the political needle in ways that other issues, like climate change, have not.

An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

In the first election of Donald Trump's second term, voters make clear that they're unhappy with his energy policies — and they still care about climate action.

A new global initiative is helping cities from Phoenix to Quezon City address extreme heat with shared solutions and local action.

University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.

The state legislature passed a bill that will add a surcharge for customers in the short term, but should pay it back more than 10-fold over the next 20 years.

Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years later, what's changed?

Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread the disease, putting 5 million at risk.

As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.

As federal support and financial incentives for climate action wither, this sort of local action is becoming more difficult but also more urgent, advocates say.

New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.

A family farm’s fight to recover from a devastating flood shows how the gridlock in Washington is only making it harder to grow and sell food.

Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.

Despite the administration’s enthusiasm for developing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, oil companies have shown little interest — leaving the state to spend millions propping up the idea.