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Plastics, taxes, and expensive desserts: Grist reporters weigh in on the climate trends that will shape the year ahead.

As the developing world witnesses a boom in road building, a movement to retrofit existing roads is gathering steam. Using embankments, channels, and dikes, so-called “green roads” help control floods, harvest excess water for use in irrigation, and slash maintenance costs.

The federal tax credit is now available as an upfront rebate, making EVs more accessible to low- and-middle-income households.

After people buy back the land beneath their mobile homes, renewables tend to crop up.

“It’s going to enable a real scale-up of these programs, in Georgia and beyond."

The temperature-sensitive pathogens that caught U.S. communities off guard are a grim preview of the future.

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and who gets access to them.

The country may have a long way to go in its decarbonization goals, but these stories show signs of progress.

The Fosen wind farm was built illegally. Now the Norwegian government is paying to keep it running.

More than two dozen countries pledged to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. But experts say the promise is “meaningless.”

Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.

In the clean energy transition, labor unions and the climate movement are finding that they're stronger together.

The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”

Climate experts give the U.S. mixed grades on its efforts to mitigate climate change — but they all agree there’s room for improvement.

The U.S.-dominated institution has a track record of harming the very nations it purports to help.

Amid an uncertain legal landscape, lawmakers are finding new ways to electrify buildings.

It was the hottest year on Earth in 125,000 years, and #climatescam is taking off.

Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.

Around 140 groups have called for an extension of public comment period over U.S. Forest Service proposal amid questions about safety and impact.

Access to sufficient cooling could further drive up the already rampant inequality in the country.