Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

The draft of the treaty that negotiators began working on last week mentioned human rights at least twice. But the text didn’t go far enough, according to legal experts, and now, at the second part of ...

“If you look at the wind and solar industry, it took decades for the cost to come down,” Aaron Bergman, a fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit focused on energy and the environment, told ...

Extreme heat, malnutrition linked to crop failures, and air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels are driving higher rates of preterm birth and infant and maternal death, undermining many ...

As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the ...

In our new series, The Disaster Economy, Grist exposes the systems that turn recovery into a marketplace — and gives readers like you the tools to navigate and challenge them.

Two years after the devastating 2023 Maui wildfires, homeowners may be facing the prospect of repaying mortgage loans ...

As countries continue to emit heat-trapping greenhouse gases, a warmer planet is fueling more severe hurricanes, wildfires, floods, droughts, and temperatures. Responding to — and rebuilding from — ...

Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie Baronet-Israel allegedly hiked the price of a home they were renting out in the ...

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry ...

This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.