October 2024 – Climate Desk

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Grist

How the 2024 election outcome affects just about everything

From public health to public lands to food prices, 15 ways the next president could impact the climate—and your life.

Grist staff · October 24, 2024
Grist

The nation’s first commercial carbon sequestration plant is in Illinois. It leaks.

“It’s a little terrifying.”

Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco · October 21, 2024
Guardian

“Vengeful” Trump withheld disaster aid, and would do so again, his old subordinates warn

Former administration officials say he deliberately denied funds to states he deemed politically hostile.

Oliver Milman · October 13, 2024
YaleEnvironment360

What’s causing the recent spike in global temperatures?

Contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, about possible causes and why experts cannot account for the heat.

Elizabeth Kolbert · October 10, 2024
Inside Climate News

Alaska utilities turn to renewables as costs escalate for fossil-fuel electricity generation

Solar, wind and small hydropower projects are gaining footholds.

Hal Bernton · October 8, 2024
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.

A meteorologist's terrifying prediction, and our catastrophic new normal.

John Morales · October 8, 2024
Grist

One month from Election Day, Helene has snarled the voting process in North Carolina

With polling places destroyed, workers missing, and residents displaced, officials scramble to restore ballot access.

oya Teirstein and Jake Bittle · October 3, 2024
Vox.com

Your phones and computers rely on this remote mine in North Carolina. Helene just drowned it.

Hurricane Helene exposed the vulnerable underbelly of the global chip industry.

Adam Clark Estes · October 2, 2024