How musicians and concert venues are upping the tempo on climate action
It’s less than an hour before the Dave Matthews Band takes the stage on a sunny Thursday evening on the
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Techonology
Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.
The motley crew of scientists, conservationists, and agricultural producers set out to begin in earnest. Spring was well underway in
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The national fight for public power comes to Oakland
Zoe Jonick didn’t think she was asking for much when she went before the Oakland City Council with what she
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They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?
In the first six months of the second Trump administration, some 60,000 federal workers have been targeted for layoffs, even
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There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet
Like so much of an iceberg is hidden underwater, much of a tree is hidden underground. While the trunk and
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The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules
From Texas clear to Georgia, from the Gulf Coast on up to the Canadian border, a mass of dangerous heat
Read MoreRising seas, vanishing voices: An Indigenous story from Martha’s Vineyard
When former Grist fellow Joseph Lee tells people that his family is from Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the coast
Read MoreThis EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it.
For more than half a century, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, or ORD, has furnished the
Read MoreKerr County’s tragic flood wasn’t an outlier. It was a preview.
The country watched in horror as torrential rain drenched Texas earlier this month, sweeping at least 135 people to their
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The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are more deadly at night
It was 4 a.m. on July 4 at Camp La Junta in Kerr County when Kolton Taylor woke up to
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