Grist

The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber production.

New Yorkers can now get fined for not separating their food scraps. Some critics say that's not the right approach.

The dispute between two Los Angeles-area districts raises a broader question of what a school district owes its neighbors after a major disaster.

President Trump continues dismantling climate policy with a move of questionable legality that benefits fossil fuels. States are sure to sue.

Here's why the U.S. is behind on building high-speed rail — and what could create momentum to catch up.

The change may speed up flood recovery, but it will leave communities — and taxpayers — facing the same problems over and over again.

Shifting political and regulatory winds have led to fewer shareholder resolutions on environmental and social issues.

Scientists put people in a heat chamber for nine hours. Here's what they learned.

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

Whether due to drought, prices, or politics, the weekslong disappearance of Canadian hydropower from New England’s grid exposes risks for the region.

Former EPA employees warn that rural and underserved communities across the country will be left with fewer protections against environmental health hazards and limited options for recourse.

A relentless storm is unleashing floods and tornadoes. Here's how a warmer atmosphere and a simmering Gulf of Mexico could be making it worse.

The agency is finally moving on getting gridlocked money to farmers. But at what cost?

Inside the little-understood fight between deep sea miners and Indigenous advocates for the ocean.

The appliances are key to ditching fossil fuels, but they rely on powerful greenhouse gases to work. Here’s how to tackle that problem.

Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."

In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

Students have big feelings about climate change. Most teachers don’t know how to help.

The U.S. has used tariffs to protect industry since 1789. That approach decimated American shipbuilding and could do the same to clean tech.