Grist

As heat waves grow longer and deadlier, cities around the world are using drills and tabletop exercises to expose weaknesses before a real emergency strikes.

The ultraefficient appliances don't just have to supplant gas furnaces, but space heaters as well.

Recovery from substance use disorder requires community. What happens when a disaster tears that apart?

Harm reduction groups and health care workers helped avert the worst. But what about the next emergency?

The ruling could reshape pesticide regulation and test President Trump's base from within.

A proposed data center in the Imperial Valley would need 750,000 gallons of water a day. Satisfying the thirst of 24 more facilities expected to open in the state will be challenging, experts and officials say.

"It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal."

The conflict may be the beginning of the end of fossil fuel dominance. Here’s which energy sources stand to win and lose.

Take it from the comedian and actor: “We should all know how to garden. It’s a better hobby than jetskiing.”

With power demand from data centers skyrocketing, the state is rejoining a regional climate initiative.

Small investors, shut out of an SEC communication platform called EDGAR, built their own. They call it POE.

Labor organizers, environmental advocates, and economists all agree: This is a bad idea.

The first warm, wet spring night sends frogs and salamanders from the forest, bearing fresh evidence of threats from warming winters, drying pools, and traffic.

Billion-dollar climate funds have structural barriers that keep Indigenous peoples from accessing them. Advocates say that's not a bug, it's a feature.

The state Department of Transportation has sidestepped endangered species protections in 11 cases, according to public records.

The lack of inexpensive and comprehensive toxics testing has created a fragile public safety net in polluted towns across the country.

A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron and other oil majors to pay is far from over.

At the U.N., global leaders say governments must stop talking and start implementing protections they adopted.

A new U.N. report maps how extreme heat is tearing through every layer of the global food system — and mostly overlooks the people at the heart of it.

To adapt to a rapidly warming world, metropolises are looking to green roofs, which boost biodiversity and reduce temperatures and flooding.