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How Republicans (sometimes) get on board with climate action
Getting anything accomplished under President-elect Trump might seem far-fetched. But it’s happened before.
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The question bringing COP29 to a halt: Who’s rich enough to pay for climate change?
Trillions of dollars depend on whether major emerging economies like China will have to step up climate aid.
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Introducing ‘anti-COP’: A climate summit for activists who are fed up
Activists rallied around a shared feeling of exclusion from the formal COP process, and concerns that the solutions that come out of it are harming their communities.
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Trump’s second term is already derailing food talks at COP29
At the U.N. climate summit, agricultural emissions are being sidelined — again.
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Extreme Weather
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Mexico is offering water to South Texas. But there’s a catch farmers aren’t happy about.
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What Election Day looked like for voters in hurricane-battered communities across Florida and North Carolina
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Voter turnout is surging in the key swing states hammered by Hurricane Helene
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Climate-fueled extreme weather is hiking up car insurance rates
Indigenous Affairs
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A ‘first step’ toward landback: Tribes call for three new monuments in California
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Tribes help tribes after natural disasters. Helene is no different.
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The tiny potato at the heart of one tribe’s fight against climate change
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UN report backs up Sámi claims that mining in Finland violates their rights to land and culture
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Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in crisis
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
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An invisible chemical is poisoning thousands of unsuspecting warehouse workers
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The people who feed America are going hungry
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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Can you solve the world’s trillion-dollar climate finance puzzle?
As countries deadlock at COP29, take Grist’s quiz to find out whose side you’re on.
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Biden wants to triple nuclear energy generation. Trump will make the call.
At this year's U.N. climate talks, the Biden team hopes a push for one of the most controversial forms of zero-emissions power will be palatable to the president's successor.
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‘Net-zero’ banks raised $1 trillion for fossil fuel giants
Taken together, the projects being financed would produce almost seven times the annual emissions of the United States.
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Trump picked Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. What will that mean for environmental policy?
What to expect: deregulation justified as boosts for the economy, and platitudes about the importance of clean air and water.
Watch This
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
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The Gulf Coast is home to one of the last healthy coral reefs. It’s surrounded by oil.
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Nature can’t run without parasites. What happens when they start to disappear?
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How efforts to protect an Indigenous oasis almost led to its demise
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Would you pay more for plane tickets to fund climate relief efforts?
At this year’s U.N. climate conference, world leaders are proposing a “global solidarity levy” on high-polluting industries.
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‘We may have less to offer’: US negotiators confront diminished standing at COP29
The Biden administration tried to project confidence in the early days of the U.N. climate conference, but all signs point to a reduced U.S. role.
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For farms and rural businesses, a fresh and funded harvest includes the sun
A federal initiative helps rural business owners and farmers slash expenses by funding solar and other energy innovations.
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A state of emergency
Hello, and welcome to the last issue of Grist’s special series on how climate disasters are shaping elections. I’m Zoya Teirstein. I was at an election night watch party in Asheville, North Carolina, last week when it became clear that Vice President Kamala Harris’ path to victory had become impossibly narrow. On the drive back […]
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