Earther

Nature for nerds

Climate Change Conservation Earth Science Energy Environmental Justice

beef on shelves at the grocery store

Trump’s Push for ‘Ultrafast’ Meat Processing Could Make a Brutal Industry Even Worse

Labor organizers, environmental advocates, and economists all agree: This is a bad idea.

Environmental Justice Frida Garza, Grist May 9

Extreme Heat In Arizona

Chance of ‘Super’ El Niño Approaches 100%, Setting the Stage for the Hottest Year on Record

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe May 8

Darpa Bushek Oyster Reef Tech

Pentagon Think Tank Tests Ingenious Plan to Protect Coasts From Hurricanes—and It’s Working

Earth Science Matthew Phelan May 8

An aerial view of a large data center

Researchers Found an Innovative Way to Cut Data Center Energy Use

Energy Ellyn Lapointe May 7

Advanced Test Reactor Idaho National Laboratory

This Experimental Low-Waste Fuel Could Transform Nuclear Reactors

Energy Gayoung Lee May 6

Latest on Earther

beef on shelves at the grocery store

Trump’s Push for ‘Ultrafast’ Meat Processing Could Make a Brutal Industry Even Worse

Extreme Heat In Arizona

Chance of ‘Super’ El Niño Approaches 100%, Setting the Stage for the Hottest Year on Record

Darpa Bushek Oyster Reef Tech

Pentagon Think Tank Tests Ingenious Plan to Protect Coasts From Hurricanes—and It’s Working

An aerial view of a large data center

Researchers Found an Innovative Way to Cut Data Center Energy Use

Advanced Test Reactor Idaho National Laboratory

This Experimental Low-Waste Fuel Could Transform Nuclear Reactors

Cruise Ship In Tracy Arm Fjord

Alaska’s Famous Fjords Are Becoming a Cruise Ship Nightmare

Car Exhaust Fumes

This AI-Powered Carbon Emissions Database Has an Embarrassing Error, Study Claims

A solar farm with mountains and a sunset in the background

Forget Expensive Carbon Capture—Renewables Are the Cheaper Climate Fix

Methane Flaring

The War on Iran Is Fueling an Energy Crisis. This Wasted Gas Could Help

Suspended dust particles illuminated by a shaft of light

Scientists Identify Another Contributor to Global Warming—and It’s Everywhere

A railway flatcar loaded with large diameter pipe

Trump Resurrects Keystone Pipeline Killed Over Climate Concerns

A map showing temperature trends for the U.S. throughout the first two weeks of May 2026

May to Bring Early Summer to the West While the East Freezes

Triga Reactor Usgs

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Appalachian Mountains at sunset

An Untapped Energy Goldmine Is Buried Beneath the US—and No, It’s Not Oil

World Globe

New Digital Tool Lets You See Where Your Backyard Was Millions of Years Ago

Dropped Ice Cream Cone

5 Reasons Why Summer Is the Worst Season of the Year

Two offshore wind turbines

Trump Is Losing GOP Support Over His Hardline War on Offshore Wind

Water Mass Around Antarctica Shift

Deep-Ocean Heat Is Creeping Up on Antarctica, Study Reveals

Georgia Wildfires

The Unexpected Way Hurricanes Are Fueling Wildfires

Sea Surface anomalies across the Earth in November 2015 during the 2014 to 2016 "super" El Niño event

This Growing El Niño Could Irreversibly Alter Earth’s Climate, Experts Warn

Climate Change

Cruise Ship In Tracy Arm Fjord

Alaska’s Famous Fjords Are Becoming a Cruise Ship Nightmare

Climate change is making landslides and tsunamis more likely in fjord regions such as Alaska's Tracy Arm.

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe May 6

Car Exhaust Fumes

This AI-Powered Carbon Emissions Database Has an Embarrassing Error, Study Claims

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe May 6

A solar farm with mountains and a sunset in the background

Forget Expensive Carbon Capture—Renewables Are the Cheaper Climate Fix

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe May 5

Suspended dust particles illuminated by a shaft of light

Scientists Identify Another Contributor to Global Warming—and It’s Everywhere

Climate Change Ellyn Lapointe May 4

Water Mass Around Antarctica Shift

Deep-Ocean Heat Is Creeping Up on Antarctica, Study Reveals

Climate Change Gayoung Lee Apr 28

Conservation

Yellowstone Park Gray Wolf Pack

Chernobyl’s Wolf Population Is Now 7 Times Higher Than Before the Disaster

Gray wolves now living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone also show a new genetic resistance to cancer, researchers have found.

Conservation Matthew Phelan Apr 27

Asian Jumping Worm

‘Jumping Worms’ Are Spreading Across the US—and Could Wreck Ecosystems

Conservation Ellyn Lapointe Apr 24

A swarm of mosquitoes with mountains in the background

Iceland Just Got Its First Mosquitoes. Scientists Aren’t Ready for What Comes Next

Conservation Ellyn Lapointe Apr 16

Starbucks plastic cup.

What the New Starbucks ‘Widely Recyclable’ Label Really Means

Conservation Joseph Winters, Grist Apr 2

A giraffe eats grass inside Murchison Falls National Park

The War on Poaching Has Gone Full Tech Dystopia—and It May Not Be Working

Conservation Sam Schramski, Benon Oluka, and Tulani Ngwenya Feb 28

Earth Science

Extreme Heat In Arizona

Chance of ‘Super’ El Niño Approaches 100%, Setting the Stage for the Hottest Year on Record

The Pacific Ocean is on track for a record-breaking warmup, fueling fears of extreme weather and historic average temperatures.

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe May 8

Darpa Bushek Oyster Reef Tech

Pentagon Think Tank Tests Ingenious Plan to Protect Coasts From Hurricanes—and It’s Working

Earth Science Matthew Phelan May 8

A map showing temperature trends for the U.S. throughout the first two weeks of May 2026

May to Bring Early Summer to the West While the East Freezes

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe May 1

World Globe

New Digital Tool Lets You See Where Your Backyard Was Millions of Years Ago

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Apr 29

Dropped Ice Cream Cone

5 Reasons Why Summer Is the Worst Season of the Year

Earth Science Ellyn Lapointe Apr 29

Energy

An aerial view of a large data center

Researchers Found an Innovative Way to Cut Data Center Energy Use

Data centers require massive amounts of energy for cooling, but these copper cooling plates are optimally designed to reduce power demand.

Energy Ellyn Lapointe May 7

Advanced Test Reactor Idaho National Laboratory

This Experimental Low-Waste Fuel Could Transform Nuclear Reactors

Energy Gayoung Lee May 6

Methane Flaring

The War on Iran Is Fueling an Energy Crisis. This Wasted Gas Could Help

Energy Ellyn Lapointe May 5

A railway flatcar loaded with large diameter pipe

Trump Resurrects Keystone Pipeline Killed Over Climate Concerns

Energy Ellyn Lapointe May 1

Triga Reactor Usgs

Ambitious Experiment Aims to Test Tiny Nuclear Reactors for AI Data Centers

Energy Gayoung Lee Apr 30

Environmental Justice

beef on shelves at the grocery store

Trump’s Push for ‘Ultrafast’ Meat Processing Could Make a Brutal Industry Even Worse

Labor organizers, environmental advocates, and economists all agree: This is a bad idea.

Environmental Justice Frida Garza, Grist May 9

A big data center next to a row of single family homes in Northern Virginia

Data Centers Create Heat Islands Stretching 6 Miles, Study Finds

Environmental Justice Ece Yildirim Apr 3

inside a data center

An AI Data Center Is Coming for Your Backyard. Here’s What That Means for You

Environmental Justice Ellyn Lapointe Oct 29 '25

inside a data center

Environmentalists Warn About AI Data Centers and ‘Forever Chemicals’: ‘This Issue Has been Dangerously Understudied’

Environmental Justice Ellyn Lapointe Oct 7 '25

7 July Hurricane Helene

Trump’s Hurricane Helene Fund Raised Millions. Good Luck Finding the Receipts

Environmental Justice Katie Myers, Grist Sep 24 '25

Sign up for our newsletters