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A helicopter dumps water against the backdrop of a red, smokey sky

Santa Ana Winds Reignite Wildfire Season in Southern California

Firefighters are struggling to control two blazes near Malibu and San Diego.

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 16

A bleached coral reef photographed underwater

Stanford Just Figured Out How to Lead Dying Coral Reefs to a ‘Fast and Full Recovery’

Conservation Matthew Phelan Oct 16

Two houses in a wooded neighborhood blanketed in fresh snow

New Maps Show How Drastically This Year’s ‘Super’ El Niño Could Influence Winter Weather in the US

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 16

Galapagos Marine Iguana Trafficking

Scientists Fear Super El Niño and a ‘Strange Uptick’ in Trafficking Could Decimate Galápagos Iguana Populations

Conservation Matthew Phelan Oct 16

Amazon Rainforest Wildfire

The Super El Niño Hasn’t Even Peaked, and It’s Already Burning Up the Amazon

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 15

Latest on Earther

A helicopter dumps water against the backdrop of a red, smokey sky

Santa Ana Winds Reignite Wildfire Season in Southern California

A bleached coral reef photographed underwater

Stanford Just Figured Out How to Lead Dying Coral Reefs to a ‘Fast and Full Recovery’

Two houses in a wooded neighborhood blanketed in fresh snow

New Maps Show How Drastically This Year’s ‘Super’ El Niño Could Influence Winter Weather in the US

Galapagos Marine Iguana Trafficking

Scientists Fear Super El Niño and a ‘Strange Uptick’ in Trafficking Could Decimate Galápagos Iguana Populations

Amazon Rainforest Wildfire

The Super El Niño Hasn’t Even Peaked, and It’s Already Burning Up the Amazon

Mutual Friends Nhm Wildlife Photography Awards

This Bird Has Seen Some Things—and the Photo Just Won an Award

A satellite image of Hurricane Simon off the Pacific Coast of Mexico

The Super El Niño Just Shattered 2 Pacific Hurricane Records—and the Season Is Far From Over

Photo: British Antarctic Survey

Ocean Water Is Seeping Under the Doomsday Glacier—and Its Sea-Level Threat Just Doubled

A man shovels out his car on a street where cars are buried in snow

Forget the 10-Day Forecast. AI Just Improved Extreme Weather Warnings Up to 6 Weeks Out

Glacial Moraines

300 Glaciers Gone: New Review Reveals the Scale of Ice Loss in the American West

Water leaks from an irrigation pipe

NASA Satellite Data Exposes a Hidden Global Water Crisis

Transmission Lines with a river in the background

A ‘Super’ El Niño Is Here. Can the US Power Grid Handle It This Winter?

A satellite image showing three cyclones near North America

The US and Mexico Are Bracing for a Cyclone Triple Threat This Weekend

A satellite image of Hurricane Isaias

Millions on the Gulf Coast Brace for Hurricane Isaias’s 7-Foot Storm Surge, Tornadoes, and Flooding

Palm Trees In Del Mar, California

The City With the Best Weather in America Isn’t Built for This Heat

A map of sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean, where a very strong El Niño has developed

Record-breaking El Niño Conditions May Linger for 6 Straight Months

Sea ice scattered across the ocean surface in Antarctica on a clear day

A Massive Hole Opened Up in Antarctica. Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why

A satellite image Tropical Storm Isaias in the western Gulf of Mexico

Tropical Storm Isaias Is Expected to Slam the Gulf Coast as a ‘Significant Hurricane’ This Weekend

Water drips from the faucet of a kitchen sink.

US Water Bills Surged 62% in 10 Years. A New Map Reveals Where Americans Pay the Most

A satellite image showing two storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico

The Atlantic’s Record-Late First Hurricane May Be Brewing in the Gulf

Climate Change

Palm Trees In Del Mar, California

The City With the Best Weather in America Isn’t Built for This Heat

Yelp searches for "air conditioning near me" were up 145% in the summer of 2026.

Climate Change Matt Novak Oct 8

Navy Relocatable Over The Horizon Radar

A Physicist Has an Ingenious Plan to Track Arctic Sea Ice With a Cold War-Era Early Warning Radar

Climate Change Matthew Phelan Sep 29

Orange Tributary Igning Alaska Brooks Range River Rusting

Alaska’s Orange Rivers Are Carrying Metals Up to 70 Times Above Normal Levels

Climate Change Gayoung Lee Sep 25

Smoke billows from a smokestack against a sunset

178 Fossil Fuel Giants Have Already Locked In Centuries of Warming

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Sep 23

Methane Flaring

Satellites Reveal America’s Top 15 Methane Super-Emitters

Climate Change Passant Rabie Sep 17

Conservation

A bleached coral reef photographed underwater

Stanford Just Figured Out How to Lead Dying Coral Reefs to a ‘Fast and Full Recovery’

Stanford researchers confirmed that contact with healthy coral can revive bleached coral in as little as eight weeks.

Conservation Matthew Phelan Oct 16

Galapagos Marine Iguana Trafficking

Scientists Fear Super El Niño and a ‘Strange Uptick’ in Trafficking Could Decimate Galápagos Iguana Populations

Conservation Matthew Phelan Oct 16

Mutual Friends Nhm Wildlife Photography Awards

This Bird Has Seen Some Things—and the Photo Just Won an Award

Conservation Gayoung Lee Oct 14

Two researchers in scuba gear setting up an underwater umbrella over coral

Scientists Invent Underwater Umbrellas to Protect Coral Reefs—and It Appears to Be Working

Conservation Ellyn Lapointe Oct 2

Yosemite Vent Random Trinkets

You Won’t Believe What People Dropped Into Yellowstone’s Hydrothermal Vents This Year

Conservation Gayoung Lee Sep 15

Earth Science

A helicopter dumps water against the backdrop of a red, smokey sky

Santa Ana Winds Reignite Wildfire Season in Southern California

Firefighters are struggling to control two blazes near Malibu and San Diego.

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 16

Two houses in a wooded neighborhood blanketed in fresh snow

New Maps Show How Drastically This Year’s ‘Super’ El Niño Could Influence Winter Weather in the US

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 16

Amazon Rainforest Wildfire

The Super El Niño Hasn’t Even Peaked, and It’s Already Burning Up the Amazon

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 15

A satellite image of Hurricane Simon off the Pacific Coast of Mexico

The Super El Niño Just Shattered 2 Pacific Hurricane Records—and the Season Is Far From Over

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 14

Photo: British Antarctic Survey

Ocean Water Is Seeping Under the Doomsday Glacier—and Its Sea-Level Threat Just Doubled

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 14

Energy

Transmission Lines with a river in the background

A ‘Super’ El Niño Is Here. Can the US Power Grid Handle It This Winter?

El Niño tilts the odds toward anomalous weather that can impact the U.S. power system in both good ways and bad ways.

Energy Ellyn Lapointe Oct 10

Deep Isolation Deep Nuclear Rig

Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste

Energy Matthew Phelan Oct 2

The exterior of a brick building with two windows and an AC unit in one of the windows.

Utilities Cut Power to Over 173,000 Homes During America’s Hottest July on Record

Energy Ellyn Lapointe Sep 30

Solar panels on the balconies of apartments

The Balcony Solar Craze Has Reached the US. Here’s What to Know Before You Buy

Energy Ellyn Lapointe Sep 25

Trump Solar Cells

Over 70% of New Solar Power Is Going Up in States That Voted for Trump

Energy Austin Corona, Grist Sep 15

Environmental Justice

Water drips from the faucet of a kitchen sink.

US Water Bills Surged 62% in 10 Years. A New Map Reveals Where Americans Pay the Most

The report blames corporate control of water systems, climate change, and federal disinvestment in infrastructure.

Environmental Justice Ellyn Lapointe Oct 6

U-boat UC-30 Danish Navy diver

Sunken WWI and WWII Ships and Subs Are Leaking TNT Pollution Into the Ocean

Environmental Justice Matthew Phelan Aug 24

A hand holds a cardboard sign that reads: "We don't have enough water for this"

Just How Bad Are AI Data Centers for Your Local Water?

Environmental Justice Ellyn Lapointe Aug 8

Animas River toxic mine spill colorado

Over 26,000 US Public Parks Border a Toxic Superfund Site—But It’s Worse Than That

Environmental Justice Matthew Phelan Aug 7

Recycling symbol

A Federal Judge Just Turned the Recycling Symbol Into a Fight Over Free Speech

Environmental Justice Joseph Winters, Grist Aug 6

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