Environmental groups have been clamoring for Congress to make this year’s farm bill the next big climate law. With more funding, climate advocates say, farmers could cut greenhouse gas emissions by storing carbon in soil, curbing nitrogen fertilizer use, and planting trees. But the farm bill — and the movement to make it climate-friendly — isn’t just […]
This is Season 3 Episode 6 of Grist’s Temperature Check podcast, featuring first person stories of crucial pivot points on the path to climate action. Listen to the full series: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify “I didn’t worry about the availability of water. I knew that it was the nature of the place that we lived in, that we had […]
This story was originally published by The 19th and is reproduced here with permission. Sommer Sibilly-Brown didn’t set out to join the food sovereignty movement. The movement found her. In 2012, Sibilly-Brown was working as an elementary school teacher in St. Croix, part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, when her students presented an idea at […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Clyde, Ohio, with a population of around 6,000, has two electric grids. One is owned by the city. The other, now serving just a handful of customers, is controlled by a subsidiary of a utility that provides electricity […]
This story was originally published by ProPublica and is reproduced here with permission. Sign up for Dispatches, ProPublica’s weekly newsletter. For well over a century, the oil and gas industry has drilled holes across California in search of black gold and a lucrative payday. But with production falling steadily, the time has come to clean […]
Calls from conservatives to boycott outdoor brand The North Face continued to grow after the retailer unveiled a Pride Month partnership with the drag queen and environmentalist Pattie Gonia. The campaign, launched on Wednesday, promotes a summerlong Pride initiative that includes events in two cities and the release of a rainbow-themed capsule collection. In one […]
Climate change has made Louisiana one of the most endangered states in the country. It has been struck by six major hurricanes in less than 25 years and lost hundreds of square miles of land to erosion in roughly the same period. But thanks partly to its extraordinarily bad luck — in particular the devastation […]
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with tribal leaders representing a dozen Indigenous nations last weekend in a move that could expand protections for land around The Grand Canyon, permanently safeguarding the region from future uranium mining. The proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument would convert 1.1 million acres of public land surrounding […]
The race to electrify the world’s vehicles and store energy will require batteries — so many of them, in fact, that meeting the demand we will see by 2040 will require 30 times the amount of critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel that those industries currently use. That presents an enormous challenge, one exacerbated […]
This story was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Technically, Holly Hutchinson lives in Ithaca, New York, a university town in the Fingers Lakes region in the north-central part of the state. But she also lives at an important intersection between two national crises: affordable housing and the race to stave off climate disaster. She […]