Articles by Senior Staff Writer Tik Root
Tik Root covers climate solutions and economics at Grist. He started his career as a freelance journalist in Yemen, and has since covered everything from Al Qaeda to the Olympics for outlets such as National Geographic, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among others. He previously worked at The Washington Post and Scripps News. Tik lives in Vermont with his wife and son.
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Greener snowmaking is helping ski resorts weather climate change
As a warming world creates an existential threat for the ski industry, resorts are reducing how much energy they need to make it snow.
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Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl flight shows what’s wrong with carbon removal
A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry.
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How California is casting a cloud over residential solar
Led by California, rooftop solar installations are poised to fall 12 percent nationally this year. It’s the first decline since 2017.
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![The world's largest crane - nicknamed Big Carl lifts a 245 ton steel dome onto a nuclear reactor under construction in Bridgwater, Somerset, England.]()
![The world's largest crane - nicknamed Big Carl lifts a 245 ton steel dome onto a nuclear reactor under construction in Bridgwater, Somerset, England.]()
Nuclear had a moment at COP28 — but it may be short-lived
More than two dozen countries pledged to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. But experts say the promise is “meaningless.”
