Grist

Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. I’m Jake Bittle, and today we’re talking about the political impact of Hurricane Milton, the second major storm to strike the United States in the last few weeks. I grew up in Tampa, Florida, less than 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricanes were never […]

No other part of the country has seen such a sharp rise in the number of big fires. The bigger challenge, though, is getting people to embrace the prescribed burns that can prevent them.

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America's farms?

Credit environmentally conscious students — and a handful of state funding programs.

Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change. But the price tag to fix what’s broken is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. 

A judge will decide the fate of Ha’Kamwe’ as the Hualapai Nation fights the drilling in court.

More than 200 science, technology, engineering, and math professionals are candidates at the state and municipal level this year.

“They burn hot, they burn fast, and they're hard to extinguish."

The Golden State finally fixed its ban last month, but at least five other states still allow the distribution of extra-thick "reusable" plastic bags.

At least six people died in the storm, and some 80,000 ended up in shelters.

In St. James Parish, a zoning ordinance divides industrial development along racial lines.

Congress gave the agency enough money to last the year. But back-to-back hurricanes are stretching resources thin.

In the series “Moral Hazards,” Grist explores some of the ethical conundrums of living in the era of climate change.

Azolla is a nutritious aquatic fern that grows like crazy. New research finds that the cyanobacteria within the plant are nontoxic, potentially clearing the way for Azolla to become a novel food.

Hundreds of thousands of residents are under evacuation orders as the state faces its second major hurricane in two weeks.

Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein. We’ve heard it time and again: Despite what the science says, climate change does not rank high among Americans’ priorities in the ballot box. When we launched this series in August, however, we made the case that climate disasters can influence voting […]

As recovery efforts continue, utilities in the region need to rethink their approach to electricity in the face of climate change.

Hurricane Helene's closure of two essential quartz mines in North Carolina reveals the precarity of the solar energy product pipeline.

Milton's wind speeds skyrocketed by 90 mph in 24 hours. It’s one of the fastest intensification events scientists have ever witnessed in the Atlantic.

Trailers and manufactured homes have long served as a lifeline for struggling families. A warming world has made them a perilous place to live.