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The Hidden Cost of Gasoline

Gas stations caused a $20 billion toxic mess — and it’s not going away.

Kate Yoder Accountability June 14, 2023

Here are the 4 issues to watch at COP28

World leaders have two weeks to decide the fate of the planet. How hard could it be?

Grist staff COP28 November 28, 2023

A man and three children stand in a garden in front of green fields.

At a shuttered Texas coal mine, a 1-acre garden is helping feed 2,000 people per month

The garden in the middle of a 35,000-acre former mine is supplying thousands of pounds of fresh produce to families in three counties that have few grocery stores.

Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune Agriculture July 29, 2023

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Gasoline use isn’t falling fast enough. Targeting ‘superusers’ could help.

America may have hit “peak gasoline,” but the fossil fuel’s decline is still too slow to meet climate goals.

Kate Yoder Transportation May 24, 2023

One man holds a tub of hempcrete and another man pushes it into place in a wooden building frame.

The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp

The Indigenous nation will soon have the only facility to create hempcrete in the country.

Judith Matloff Indigenous Affairs November 26, 2023

An image taken from the air of rolling green forests interrupted by swathes of brown, dying trees.

In the once-cool forests of the Pacific Northwest, heat poses a new threat

Drought can stress trees to death, but heat’s effects are less known. New research could hold the keys to protecting conifer forests.

Sarah Trent, High Country News Extreme Weather March 12, 2023

a black and yellow electric school bus sits in an outdoor parking lot

US unveils $1 billion effort to electrify school buses

Electric buses are coming to nearly 400 school districts.

Brett Marsh Transportation October 31, 2022

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Pregnant in a warming climate: A lethal ‘double risk’ for malaria

Mosquitoes are moving into the mountains of Papua New Guinea and other highland areas. That could be a death sentence for pregnant people.

Zoya Teirstein Health May 30, 2024

How NYC officials failed to prepare for an air quality crisis

"It’s been a lackluster, underwhelming, frankly problematic response."

Lylla Younes Extreme Weather June 8, 2023

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