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WEBThe Daily is a free daily roundup of our top stories. The only newsroom focused on finding solutions at the intersection of climate and justice. Help Grist raise $25,000 by September 30 to further ...
Landfills bake the planet even more than we realized | Grist
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Leaks that exceed the Clean Air Act’s limit of 500 parts per million are common, as shown by the hotspots Carbon Mapper identified. These areas typically appear after unanticipated events, such ...
Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
WEBJul 30, 2024 · One of the smallest, and potentially most worrisome, animals being affected are insect pollinators, like bees, flies, butterflies, and moths. These arthropods are crucial for our food system: They ...
What is a green job? - Grist
WEBDec 12, 2008 · Uncategorized. Share/Republish. Green jobs are living-wage, career-track jobs that contribute to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. They have some important characteristics: Green jobs ...
Do you have ‘recycling bias’? - Grist
WEBAug 3, 2023 · A decades-long effort to educate people about recycling has mostly backfired, according to new research. The study, published last week in Nature Sustainability, found that an overemphasis on ...
What’s next for Indigenous groups working to reclaim the ... - Grist
WEBJan 13, 2022 · The Black Hills — Paha Sapa in Lakota — is the geographical heart of the United States and also the site of one of the nation’s oldest land disputes. The federal government granted the land ...
Here’s why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal
WEBMar 3, 2021 · The Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile area bisected by a sparkling river that stretches from New York’s Catskill Mountains to the Delaware Bay, is officially closed to fracking. Last ...
LA's Watts neighborhood is being ‘revitalized’ — but the ... - Grist
WEBJun 18, 2021 · The historically majority-Black public housing site was at the center of both the Watts rebellion and the 1992 L.A. riots. Today the community is 64 percent Latino and 35 percent Black, but it’s ...
Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts
WEBMay 20, 2022 · That means an unreliable grid. When there isn’t enough power, operators set off outages, rolling blackouts, to avoid long-term damage to the grid. About two-thirds of the U.S. is vulnerable to a ...
The toxic legacy of DDT could span three generations | Grist
WEBMar 18, 2020 · DDT’s toxic legacy could span three generations. Scientists have struggled to link DDT and cancer. Then a library of frozen blood changed everything. More than 50 years ago, scientists at the ...