The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought
May 24, 2024 · At the bottom of the Earth sits a massive bowl of ice you may know as the West Antarctic ice sheet. Each day, the ocean laps away at its base, slowly eroding the glaciers that line its rim.
What a second Trump presidency could mean for Indigenous …
Oct 3, 2024 · She was right. On January 24, 2017, just four days after his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and pave ...
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The Panama Canal needs more water. The solution could displace ...
Oct 2, 2024 · With a future crisis seeming inevitable, the canal authority is turning to a long-contemplated solution: Dam the neighboring Río Indio to create a new reservoir, which could be tapped to ...
How do you save a rainforest? Leave it alone. | Grist
Nov 6, 2024 · Secondly, it helps for tropical soil to have a high carbon content to nourish plants. “Organic carbon, as any person who loves composting knows, really helps the soil to be nutritious and bulk ...
Food is a huge source of methane emissions. Fixing that is no
Sep 16, 2024 · An international team of researchers found that global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, rose faster than ever in the three years ending in 2022.In a new report from the Global Carbon ...
How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by …
Nov 14, 2023 · The Fifth National Climate Assessment, released on Tuesday by the Biden administration, is unique for its focus on the present.Like previous versions, it looks at how rising temperatures will ...
Fact-checking the viral conspiracies in the wake of Hurricane …
Oct 4, 2024 · This story is part of State of Emergency, a Grist series exploring how climate disasters are impacting voting and politics.. The conspiracy theories started swirling even as the floodwaters were ...
Trump picked Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. What will that mean for ...
Nov 13, 2024 · After President-elect Donald Trump announced Lee Zeldin as his nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, the former Republican representative from Long Island, New York, phoned into Fox ...
The climate stakes of the Harris-Trump election | Grist
Oct 23, 2024 · The next administration will be decisive for the country’s progress on critical climate goals. By 2030, just a year after the next president would leave office, the U.S. has committed to reduce ...