On Thursday, 2020 officially took its place in the upper echelon of warmest years in human history: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranked last year as the hottest year to date, ahead of 2016 by just a hair. Two other global temperature tracking organizations, the U.K.’s Met Office and the U.S. National Oceanic and […]
Last year, Europe’s three largest oil companies made splashy commitments to take action on climate change. BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and the French oil giant Total pledged to reduce their emissions, and to leave trade associations that work counter to their climate goals. On Friday, Total showed the world it wasn’t kidding around by announcing […]
It may be a new year, but the 2020 election isn’t over yet. All eyes are on Georgia, where four candidates are duking it out over a pair of crucial U.S. Senate seats. The two runoff races will finish what was started on November 3, when no candidate in either of the state’s Senate races […]
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President-elect Joe Biden has assembled what environmentalists are calling an “all-star” team to lead his government’s efforts to curb climate change and reverse the Trump administration’s astoundingly pro-polluter legacy. Democratic Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico, one […]
Xavier Becerra, the first Latino attorney general of California, has been a thorn in the Trump administration’s side since President Donald Trump moved into the White House nearly four years ago. Becerra and a battalion of Democratic attorneys general have taken Trump to task over health care, immigration, and much else, but time and again […]
Fix What’s this? Latest Grist 50 We’re all eager to put 2020 behind us. There’s no guarantee we’ll have easier days ahead — our nation is as divided as ever, the pandemic rages on, and the climate crisis is still, you know, a crisis. To put it simply: We’ve got work to do. But as […]
If you live in one of America’s wooded zip codes, you’ve probably reached down to pet your dog and noticed what feels like a small raisin attached to its skin. Nine times out of 10, that raisin turns out to be a dog tick, an arachnid evolved to favor feeding on canines that can transmit […]
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was another scorching summer this year in Tucson, Arizona, the second-hottest city in the United States, where even plants adapted to the desert’s harsh conditions wilted amid record-breaking temperatures and scant rainfall. This summer was the […]
Indigenous peoples have a critical role to play in the fight against climate change. Though they make up just 5 percent of the world’s population, their lands encompass more than 80 percent of global biodiversity. Indigenous lands are also at greatest risk from the multiple threats posed by climate change: rising sea levels, warmer temperatures, […]
This article is published in partnership with: Acting on climate change is harder than it ought to be. Sure, you care about the environment, but how in the name of Captain Planet are you actually supposed to buy a carbon offset? And how many of those things are you supposed to get, anyway? You’re willing […]