Unlike the Paris Agreement, Trump’s withdrawal from a bedrock U.N. climate treaty may be difficult to reverse.

U.S. sanctions helped cause the collapse of Venezuelan oil production — damage that Trump is now using as justification for ...

A new analysis finds that in 2025, disasters in the U.S. took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.

Public Health Watch chronicles, in 13 scenes, a fossil-fuel infrastructure boom that could worsen air pollution in some areas ...

In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution — not just for those who move, but their home ...

Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires around the world may be 70 percent higher than once believed.

This story is made possible through a partnership between Grist and The Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories. In his 15 ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Our goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way toward a ...

President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought out, or otherwise ousted hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

Around August of each year, when temperatures swell in the Great Lakes region, wild rice — or manoomin in the Ojibwe language — begins to flower. Rice stalks can grow as high as 10 feet in the shallow ...

When the Forest Service approved the sale of nearly 70 acres for commercial logging in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest in late 2024, Sam Stearns was furious. The Shawnee is the only ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. On the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, a line of large chest coolers waits outside Wise Brothers ...