Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family members in this community who died, often due to disease or other health complications. The Gardens, as...
‘Build, baby, build:’ Canada’s new prime minister wants to make the country into an ‘energy superpower’
Canada’s newly elected prime minister wants to turn the country into an “energy superpower,” while promising to respect Indigenous rights, prompting both cautious optimism and skepticism from Indigenous leaders and advocates in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney won Canada’s election this week in what many observers are calling an embrace...
Who will finance global climate solutions? Not the West.
International climate action has long rested on the consequential distinction between the Global North and the Global South. Wealthier, earlier-to-industrialize nations contributed the most to a warming planet while developing countries bear the brunt of the climate crisis. As a result, developed countries have been called on to help developing...
Project 2025 was extreme. Trump’s first 100 days have been even more radical.
“I know nothing about Project 2025,” President Donald Trump said in a social media post last summer, four months before he defeated former vice president Kamala Harris and made a triumphant return to power. He was referring to a 900-page document written by the Heritage Foundation, a think tank that...
Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
Around the world, farmers are retooling their land to harvest the hottest new commodity: sunlight. As the price of renewable energy technology has plummeted and water has gotten more scarce, growers are fallowing acreage and installing solar panels. Some are even growing crops beneath them, which is great for plants...
Trump is bypassing community input to fast-track energy projects that risk pollution
This story is part of a Grist package examining how President Trump’s first 100 days in office have reshaped climate and environmental policy in the U.S., and is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan. When President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency...
The New Jersey fire signals a new era for the Northeast
The Jones Road Wildfire, which started last Tuesday in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, is on track to become the worst in state history. Fueled by gusty winds, low humidity, and dry undergrowth — conditions increasingly common in the region — the blaze has scorched more than 23 square...
Indigenous leaders push for seat at the table of high seas biodiversity treaty
This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. In Native Hawaiians’ genealogical stories, says Solomon Kahoʻohalahala, the coral polyp is considered the oldest ancestor, and they hold relationships with animals, including the Koholā, or humpback whale. “Koholā is the manifestation of our god of the sea and is revered...
The Trump administration’s push to privatize US public lands
America’s federal public lands are truly unique, part of our birthright as citizens. No other country in the world has such a system. More than 640 million acres, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, as well as lands open to drilling, mining, logging, and a variety of other uses,...
The Trump administration just dismissed all 400 experts working on America’s official climate report
Every several years for the past 25 years, the federal government has published a comprehensive look at the way climate change is affecting the country. States, local governments, businesses, farmers, and many others use this National Climate Assessment to prepare for rising temperatures, more bouts of extreme weather, and worsening...