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Grist

Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?

Climate change is affecting parasites, but not in the way you might expect.

Jesse Nichols · May 10, 2024
Guardian

Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’

Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed

Michael Sainato · May 7, 2024
Mother Jones

TikTok’s raw milk Influencers are going to give us all bird flu

Influencers love unpasteurized milk—and so does the H5N1 virus.

Julia Métraux · May 6, 2024
Guardian

Big oil spent decades sowing doubt about fossil fuel dangers, experts testify

US Senate hearing reviewed report showing sector’s shift from climate denial to ‘deception, disinformation and doublespeak’

Dharna Noor · May 3, 2024

Grist

A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization

Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.

Lylla Younes · April 30, 2024
Guardian

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’

Levy on oil and gas majors in richest countries would help worst-affected nations tackle climate crisis, says report

Matthew Taylor · April 29, 2024
Grist

The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute

A new study, drawing on five years of data collected across 84 countries, proves what seems self-evident.

Joseph Winters · April 26, 2024
Guardian

Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments

Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal

Dharna Noor · April 24, 2024

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The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is still a bipartisan unicorn

As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’

Erin X. Wong · April 23, 2024
Guardian

Unilever to scale back environmental and social pledges

Environmental groups say bosses should ‘hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costs

Rob Davies · April 22, 2024
YaleEnvironment360

Jared Kushner has big plans for delta of Europe’s last wild river

As plans for luxury developments there — spearheaded by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — move ahead, conservationists are sounding the alarm.

Fred Pearce · April 18, 2024
Grist

FEMA is making an example of this Florida boomtown.

Locals call it ‘revenge politics.’

Jake Bittle · April 17, 2024