Articles by Senior Staff Writer Matt Simon
Matt Simon is a senior writer at Grist, covering climate solutions. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Wired magazine. He’s the author of three books, most recently A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
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Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
NOAA's Center for Heat Resilient Communities would have helped cities better understand their struggles with heat — and deploy solutions for keeping residents safe.
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Mayors are making climate action personal. It’s working.
As the Trump administration boosts fossil fuels and rolls back regulations, mayors are greening their cities — in more ways than one.
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The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica
Scientists find that ammonia wafting from all that guano kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction.
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The government just killed an essential way to assess climate risk
Cities, insurers, and the public used the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database to plan for the future. Now what will they do?
