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Gristby Katie Myers8h ago
Luther “Sunny” Miller is nearly 80, but in his younger days, he worked at Aerojet, a rocket and missile manufacturer located quite literally in his backyard.
Gristby Joseph Lee8h ago
Cattle are a central part of the identity of Andrew Msami’s Maasai community in northeast Tanzania.
Gristby Matt Simon9h ago
Unprecedented. Record-breaking. Baffling. Experts are running out of ways to describe this year’s tornado season in the Midwest, which has unleashed more twisters on Illinois than any other place...
Gristby Adam Mahoney, Capital B1d ago
Dominika Parry never stopped fighting for Jackson, Mississippi, residents even after the Trump administration terminated a multibillion-dollar program last year meant to help the Black city still...
Gristby Gabrielle Canon2d ago
The U.S. has faced a critical shortage of firefighters at the Forest Service, or USFS, this summer as thousands of fires erupted across the country.
Gristby Austin Corona3d ago
Repeated record-breaking heat waves cooked the European continent this summer, delivering the region’s hottest June on record.
Gristby Sachi Kitajima Mulkey3d ago
The world has become hotter and, in many places, drier than ever before in recorded history. Just this summer, as some U.S.
Gristby Frida Garza4d ago
Earlier this summer, when the news broke about an outbreak of cyclosporiasis — a parasitic infection that results in abdominal distress and is passed on via food or water that has been contaminated...
Gristby Katie Worth4d ago
Had Florida’s high school marine biology students read the original draft of their textbook, they would have learned about research that found climate change is killing at least 150,000 people per...
Gristby Ellis Juhlin4d ago
The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the “roadless rule,” a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest...
Gristby Benton Graham5d ago
On Charlie Hamilton’s regular Amtrak rides from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, British Columbia, he passes some of the country’s most spectacular vistas: the Puget Sound coast and the...
Gristby Vivian La5d ago
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. The U.S.
Gristby Matt Simon5d ago
Ancient Egyptian civilization blossomed in the scorching desert thanks to the Nile River, which delivered fresh water and annual dumps of nutrient-rich sediment.
Gristby Matt Simon6d ago
California has a good problem. As it scrambles to deploy more solar panels and wind turbines, it is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality while hitting the challenge of...
Gristby Emily Jones6d ago
Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultra-thin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to get what...
Gristby Jake Bittle6d ago
We tend to imagine that experiencing the effects of global warming will wake people up to the problem.
Gristby Tik Root6d ago
California just became the first state to address a problem most people don’t know they have: inefficient tires.
Gristby Tik Root6d ago
Sales of used electric vehicles continued their surge in July, jumping 7.7 percent from June and 10.1 percent compared to last year, according to data Cox Automotive released today.
Gristby Leia Larsen7d ago
Congressional Democrats have opened an investigation into the mining company Energy Fuels after its CEO and chairman bought thousands of shares of the company’s stock just days before President...
Gristby Maya Yang, The Guardian8d ago
The Trump administration has pulled its support for an annual report on the environmental changes across the Arctic, a region that is already heating up four times faster than the global average...
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