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How can California solve its water woes? By flooding its best farmland.
Restored floodplains in the state’s agricultural heartland are fighting both flooding and drought. But their fate rests with California’s powerful farmers.
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Here’s how experts graded US climate progress in 2023
Climate experts give the U.S. mixed grades on its efforts to mitigate climate change — but they all agree there’s room for improvement.
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![A plowed field and water tower are shouded in fog in an aerial photo of the town of Stanton, Tennessee.]()
A huge EV factory is coming to west Tennessee. Here’s how locals are ensuring they benefit.
Communities are using an organizing tool intended for sports stadiums to bargain with energy transition projects for labor standards and affordable housing.
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Climate reparations are becoming a reality. Here’s what they could look like.
Grist asked 10 countries how they would use the long-awaited “loss and damage” fund launched at COP28.
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How much carbon can oysters store? Scientists are trying to find out.
Oysters stabilize shorelines, trap carbon-rich sediment, and help marshes grow.
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In France, zero-waste experiments tackle a tough problem: People’s habits
Local initiatives in Roubaix and Nouvelle-Aquitaine try different strategies for waste reduction — and behavior change.
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Inside the Marshall Islands’ life-or-death plan to survive climate change
The Pacific island nation is seeking $35 billion to protect against sea-level rise and prevent a mass exodus.
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The problem with conventional lawns (and what could replace them)
Bans on gas-powered lawn equipment are spreading — meanwhile, some advocates are looking for ways to ditch grass altogether.
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![A man walks past a COP28 logo ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai on November 28, 2023. The UN chief urged world leaders to take decisive action to tackle ever-worsening climate change when they gather at the COP28 summit in Dubai starting this week.]()
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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?
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![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.
