Electricity prices in the U.S. are rising sharply, but the burden of rising bills isn’t evenly distributed. A Yale Climate Connections analysis of electricity prices has found that data centers and ...

Fairfax Falls Hydroelectric Dam in Fairfax, Vermont, being overtopped by extreme flooding on July 11, 2023. (Image credit: A.J. Murray. Published with permission.) “America’s infrastructure is the ...

In early 2025, Mercedes-Benz ran its first road tests of an electric passenger car powered by a prototype solid-state battery pack. The carmaker predicts the next-gen battery will increase the ...

Bill McKibben is like that old culture of yeast you revive when you want to start a new batch of sourdough. He makes movements rise. McKibben’s new book, “Here Comes the Sun,” is a sober yet upbeat ...

In an aerial view, workers move fresh sand along the main public beach during a sand replenishment project along eroding shoreline on November 21, 2024, in San Clemente, California. According to the U ...

Is effective action on climate change feasible in a political atmosphere overheated by a pandemic, wars, zealous partisanship, and now tariffs? Yes, argues Ani Dasgupta, president and CEO of the World ...

The aftermath of Katrina. Boats strewn about by Katrina. (Image credit: Collection of Wayne and Nancy Weikel, FEMA Fisheries Coordinators, NOAA photo library) Hurricane Katrina’s impact on the Gulf ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by (L-R) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary ...

KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 13: A person pays their respects at a memorial honoring the lives lost in the flash floods that claimed lives on July at least 138 lives on July 13, 2025 in Kerville, Texas.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered ...

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaks to members of the press on the White House grounds on February 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Trump administration, Wright was the CEO of ...

I was shuttling between patients, carrying my reusable water bottle from room to room to stay hydrated. “You shouldn’t drink out of that plastic bottle while you’re pregnant,” a kind social worker – ...