stLouISTWhat happens when America’s flood insurance market goes underwater?
More homeowners than ever need flood insurance. Fewer than ever can afford it.
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Cooking oil has a deforestation problem. A startup says it has a solution.
Palm and soy are taking over the world's cropland. Enter Zero Acre Farms.
California enacts far-reaching climate disclosure laws
New laws passed this weekend tackle carbon offsets, corporate emissions, and clean energy.
Why Indigenous youth are gathering in Oslo to fight a green energy project
Two years after a wind farm was ruled illegal in Norway, Sámi activists are still fighting for its closure.
As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing
Natural disasters now cost the U.S. insurance industry $100 billion a year. What happens when no one wants to pick up the tab?
As heat-related deaths rise, a new program puts community clinics on the front lines
An initiative in Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona enlists clinicians to ensure resources go to the right places during heat waves.
Backyard sewage and parasitic disease: EPA opens a civil rights probe in Alabama
Advocates allege the state hindered Black residents from receiving critical federal funds.
In Texas, oilfield companies helped to craft new waste rules for 2 years before the public got to see them
The effort to update the state’s oilfield waste disposal rules was initiated by Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright, one of the state’s top oil and gas regulators who has investments in the industry.
A gas storage plant and new pipeline disrupt life in this Black community
The environmental health crisis ruminating in Houston’s Southwest Crossing neighborhood is the product of climate change and an unstable energy grid.
Grid batteries have never been more abundant — or more useful
This summer, batteries bolstered the heat-battered grids of Texas and California, underscoring the tech’s value as a low-carbon way to keep the lights on.
Energy Department backs solar loans for low-income Puerto Ricans
The Biden administration wants to expand access to solar financing, but some resilience advocates disagree with the approach.
Offshore wind turbines need rare earth metals. Will there be enough to go around?
China dominates production of the crucial metals, and wind companies are scouring the globe for more sources.
Arizona is evicting a Saudi alfalfa farm, but the thirsty crop isn’t going anywhere
The state’s decision will do little to solve a water shortage largely driven by irrigated agriculture.
Cities worldwide keep building in flood zones, despite mounting risks
"We invest in flood zones more than safe zones," says the author of a report that finds construction in such areas has jumped 122 percent.
In communities of color, most oil and gas jobs still go to white workers
“If one group gets all the pollution and another group gets all the jobs, it’s not really a trade-off anymore.”
There’s still a chance for America to reach net-zero, but it requires drastic action
That includes building more renewables, selling more electric vehicles, and fixing up more buildings.
How to build a heat-resilient city
Grist designed a model metropolis for an era of high temperatures, using the coolest technology available.
The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines
“We’re increasingly finding that it’s not true that these are just ecological voids where nothing is living there.”
Pope Francis calls for rapid decarbonization, ‘abandonment of fossil fuels’
The pontiff's latest decree urges Western countries to do more to avert climate disaster.
Earth just set another heat record — by the largest margin yet
The average temperature in September was "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas."