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Will Ukraine Let Nature Revive When the War Is Finally Over?

Amid the destruction, scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. Some of them think it should continue.

Fred Pearce · November 9, 2024
Guardian

“Used like taxis:” Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions

Analysis of 19 million flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50 percent rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste.’

Damian Carrington · November 7, 2024
Grist

The race for clean energy is local

A couple hundred overlooked public officials control the US power grid—and some of them are on your ballots.

Emily Jones & Gautama Mehta · November 4, 2024
Mother Jones

How East Palestine was forgotten again

After the train derailment, politicians like JD Vance promised residents of the rural community in Pennsylvania and Ohio they would be prioritized. It hasn't happened.

Eve Andrews · November 4, 2024

Guardian

Trump donor fined for pollution leads a fight to end methane emission penalties

Detailed plans from 30 oil and gas producers come amid historic levels of potent planet-heating emissions

Oliver Milman · November 4, 2024
Inside Climate News

A second Trump term could threaten already shrinking freedoms for protest and dissent

Experts raise alarms about GOP nominee's combative language and state laws criminalizing protest and speech.

Keerti Gopal · November 2, 2024
Mother Jones

Climate chaos will define the next presidency

Voters face a choice: Disaster capitalism—or a national retrofit to limit the damage.

Alex Steffen · November 1, 2024
Mother Jones

The energy culture war Is on the ballot in one of America’s greenest states

Washington's industry-backed anti-electrification measure could threaten the nation's clean energy ambitions.

Jackie Flynn Mogensen · November 1, 2024

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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