Climate in the Time of Coronavirus
Grist is all about climate and environment, but for the moment, there’s a new most-pressing issue gripping the world: the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The way that humanity tackles this pandemic parallels how it might fight warming — there are stories of government preparedness, individual action, and transformative change. Grist is still all about climate and environment; today we are looking at them through a new, profound lens.
In This Series
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Smoke, heat, and COVID-19: Californians are caught between public health crises
The wildfires, the heat, and the pandemic are combining to make a particularly challenging public health stew.
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LA’s homeless communities are avoiding cooling centers, and it’s not just because of COVID-19
Pinned between the climate crisis, COVID, and street sweeps, homeless people in L.A. are struggling to keep cool.
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Why COVID deniers and climate skeptics paint scientists as alarmist
And why they also try to "feminize science," labeling experts as shrill or emotional.
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This study on using water and fans to cool down sounds silly. Here’s why it’s important.
As obvious as cooling off with fans and water sounds, it’s not obvious to all public health departments.
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Post-COVID, should countries rethink their obsession with economic growth?
Post-COVID, should countries rethink their obsession with economic growth?
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Father-daughter team details the effects of COVID lockdown on warming
We'd need a yearly quarantine to get emissions down enough to limit global warming.
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Scientists unveil a plan to prevent the next pandemic (and save nature at the same time)
It would cost a fraction of the $9 trillion governments have spent on COVID-19.
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As COVID surges in Puerto Rico, thousands have lost steady access to running water
140,000 residents are subject to government-mandated water rationing and lose access to their faucets every other day.
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To fight climate change, Democrats want to close the ‘digital divide’
The pandemic has laid bare the difference between the digital haves and have-nots. Climate change will only worsen the inequality.
