Climate & Energy

Climate should be Obama’s No. 1 priority, say lots of people who aren’t tree-hugging enviros

The New Yorker calls on Obama to put climate action at the top of his agenda. So does Republican Christine Todd Whitman and other non-hippies.

Lisa Hymas Climate & Energy

The moral logic of climate communication

Climate communicators have two moral obligations: (1) be accurate and (2) ensure that audiences understand and care. Too many people fixate on No. 1 and ignore No. 2.

David Roberts Climate & Energy

Population growth and the road to total societal meltdown

A new documentary follows overpopulation experiments with rats to offer insight into our own dangerously crowded world. The bad news: Crowded rats got fat and happy -- and then they all died.

Michael C. Osborne Cities

Do environmental groups deserve credit for big wins last week?

Green groups invested in eight U.S. Senate races, and their preferred candidates won in seven of them. What does that tell us? It's complicated.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

Climate change is stealing pandas’ food

Bamboo might seem hardy, but it does not deal well with temperature changes.

Sarah Laskow Climate & Energy

Venice swamped by near-record flooding

Venice has always experienced periodic flooding, but it's happening more often these days.

Philip Bump Cities

A vehicle makes its way through a flooded street of Milford, Connecticut

Grist’s theme for November: What’s next for the climate?

Introducing: monthly themes! Here's a smattering of the stuff we've got on tap.

Scott Rosenberg Climate & Energy

Hundreds of thousands still without power post-Sandy, provoking backlash against utilities

New York Gov. Cuomo is furious with utilities and promises to review their contracts. Meanwhile, Reuters looks at whether customers could sue.

Philip Bump Cities

Climate science is Nate Silver and U.S. politics is Karl Rove

Republicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.