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Smoke billows from a smokestack against a sunset

The US Has Retreated From Climate Action. A New Report Reveals the Global Consequences

Rising U.S. emissions are pushing best-case climate scenarios out of reach.

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Oct 21

Earth From Space Wide Beauty Shot

Earth’s Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 21

A Yellow Bellied Sea Snake on a sandy beach

This Super El Niño Is Drawing Exotic Species to the California Coast

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 20

Habitat Fauna Bluebanded Snapper

Thousands of Years Ago, This Seafloor Was a Forest. Now It’s Something Else Entirely

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 20

Antarctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Could Be Far Worse Than Models Predict

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 20

Latest on Earther

Smoke billows from a smokestack against a sunset

The US Has Retreated From Climate Action. A New Report Reveals the Global Consequences

Earth From Space Wide Beauty Shot

Earth’s Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years

A Yellow Bellied Sea Snake on a sandy beach

This Super El Niño Is Drawing Exotic Species to the California Coast

Habitat Fauna Bluebanded Snapper

Thousands of Years Ago, This Seafloor Was a Forest. Now It’s Something Else Entirely

Antarctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Could Be Far Worse Than Models Predict

El Nino Waves Beach

El Niño Has Already Risen Some Pacific Region Sea Levels by Over 1 Foot

Longyearbyen, Norway

This Town Was Already in Crisis. Then Rapid Arctic Melting Starting Making Its Tap Water Undrinkable

Colossal Peter Jackson Moa Egg

Peter Jackson Just Got an Ultra-Rare Extinct Moa Egg Back to New Zealand With the Help of De-Extinction Startup

People take photos from the damaged boardwalk as a Pacific Ocean wave crashes over a seawall

Which Is the Most Underestimated Climate Threat in the US?

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

Climate Change

Smoke billows from a smokestack against a sunset

The US Has Retreated From Climate Action. A New Report Reveals the Global Consequences

Rising U.S. emissions are pushing best-case climate scenarios out of reach.

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Oct 21

El Nino Waves Beach

El Niño Has Already Risen Some Pacific Region Sea Levels by Over 1 Foot

Climate Change Matthew Phelan Oct 19

Longyearbyen, Norway

This Town Was Already in Crisis. Then Rapid Arctic Melting Starting Making Its Tap Water Undrinkable

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Oct 19

People take photos from the damaged boardwalk as a Pacific Ocean wave crashes over a seawall

Which Is the Most Underestimated Climate Threat in the US?

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe Oct 17

Palm Trees In Del Mar, California

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

Climate Change Matt Novak Oct 8

Conservation

Colossal Peter Jackson Moa Egg

Peter Jackson Just Got an Ultra-Rare Extinct Moa Egg Back to New Zealand With the Help of De-Extinction Startup

The Lord of the Rings filmmaker helped acquire the rare moa egg, one of less than 40 known to exist, after a gallery in Colorado put the ancient specimen up for auction this June.

Conservation Matthew Phelan Oct 19

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

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

Earth Science

Earth From Space Wide Beauty Shot

Earth’s Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years

A new study offers an explanation for unusual chemical signatures found in some volcanic rocks.

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 21

A Yellow Bellied Sea Snake on a sandy beach

This Super El Niño Is Drawing Exotic Species to the California Coast

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 20

Habitat Fauna Bluebanded Snapper

Thousands of Years Ago, This Seafloor Was a Forest. Now It’s Something Else Entirely

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 20

Antarctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice Loss Could Be Far Worse Than Models Predict

Earth Science Passant Rabie Oct 20

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

Santa Ana Winds Reignite Wildfire Season in Southern California

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Oct 16

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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