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Climate Desk Live: Watch David Roberts and other smarties debate Keystone
Climate Desk hosted a discussion on the science, stakes, and strategy behind the tar-sands pipeline fight.
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Time to Recognize the Rights of Nature
With Earth Day 2013 around the corner, it’s a good time to step back and see how we’ve been doing since the first Earth Day in 1970, when 20 million people took to the streets to protest rivers on fire, DDT-poisoned birds, sewage on beaches, and a devastating oil spill off the pristine Santa Barbara […]
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Keystone XL: The science, stakes, and strategy behind the tar-sands pipeline fight
You're invited to the next Climate Desk Live event for a debate and discussion between some of the leading voices on this issue, including Grist's own David Roberts.
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‘Messy’ U.S. climate policy is kinda working
Even without an overall climate strategy, the country is inching ahead on climate action, a new report found.
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How immigration reform can lead us to a stronger environmental movement
The demographics of the U.S. are changing fast, and mainstream green groups aren't keeping up. It's time for a new, inclusive approach.
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Did climate change cause the epic Great Plains drought?
A report from NOAA finds that last year's drought in the central U.S. was just a freak weather event, but at least one respected climate scientist disagrees.
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InsideClimate wins Pulitzer for reporting on tar-sands spill
The nonprofit news site is being honored for its coverage of a spill into the Kalamazoo River and the broader dangers posed by tar-sands pipelines.
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Amazing Chicago Coal, Clean Air Activist Wins Goldman Environmental Prize
Every year the Goldman Environmental Prize committee selects an amazing group of winners from around the world to receive what is sometimes called the environmental Nobel prize – and I could not be more thrilled with their pick for North America this year: Kim Wasserman Nieto of Chicago, Illinois. Kim is a phenomenal environmental justice […]
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From soybeans to solar – a community energy project sprouts from Wisconsin fields
Just north of Delavan, Wisconsin, is Dan Osborne’s nursery farm. Where you once found a bean field now sit 80 solar panels on 100 tracking towers, generating renewable power for over 125 homes. It’s a small, but successful community-owned energy harvest. The solar farm was developed by Convergence Energy of Lake Geneva, WI and has […]
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Oceans are absorbing excess heat, for now
Climate change is disproportionately warming the oceans, but scientists warn that this trend won't keep landlubbers cool forever.
