We hand-package the week’s best Grist stories. Delivered free every Saturday morning.
Δ
A nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
Africatown, the only U.S. community established by West Africans who survived the Middle Passage, demonstrates the long roots of environmental injustice.
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
There have already been 50 chemical spills or fires in the U.S. this year, and it's only March.
In an exclusive interview, Biden FEMA chief Deanne Criswell discusses her attempts to create a “very different” disaster agency.
Climate change means communities along the Mississippi River are experiencing longer and higher floods in springtime, flash flooding from heavy rains, as well as prolonged droughts.
Biden's green jobs program was never what it seemed. Now it's shutting down before Trump takes office.
An initiative in Florida, Louisiana, and Arizona enlists clinicians to ensure resources go to the right places during heat waves.
When asked about climate change, David Malpass said he’s “not a scientist.” Soon he won’t be a World Bank president either.
Failure to account for climate change means low-income homeowners could see their home values plunge
