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Thousands flee fires in Australia, navy helps evacuate the stranded
Fueled by searing temperatures and high winds, more than 200 fires are burning across the southeastern states of New South Wales and Victoria, threatening several towns forcing tens of thousands to...
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Air pollution is a silent killer, even when it meets EPA standards
Evidence from a new study indicates that supposedly safe levels of air pollution can actually be deadly.The research, published in a Journal of the American Medical Association, links the deaths of...
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This Bangladeshi man's story shows why linking climate change with conflict...
From Sudan to Syria to Bangladesh, climate change is often presented as a powerful and simple root cause of violent conflict and mass migration.These narratives can be dangerous. Directly linking...
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1 billion animals have died in Australian bushfires, ecologist estimates
Australian firefighters used a break from searing temperatures on Tuesday to strengthen containment lines around huge wildfires as the financial and environmental costs of the crisis mounted.More than...
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How to solve the plastic waste problem: Build a better plastic
Worldwide, less than 10% of the plastic we use gets recycled. Most ends up in a landfill. And much of that eventually makes its way out to sea, clogging up our oceans.And here’s the extra bad news:...
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Koalas are the face of Australian tourism. What now after the fires?
In 1936, The Evening News in Rockhampton wrote:The time has arrived when Australians must decide whether or not they will accept responsibility for the perpetuation of the koala […]It seems...
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In 2020, the courts will continue to be a player in climate change
In September 2009, Typhoon Ketsana dumped a foot and a half of rain on the Philippines in just 24 hours.In the capital, Manila, muddy, sewage-filled floodwater trapped Veronica “Derek” Cabe’s family on...
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This land and water preservationist is a 'force of nature' in northern Mexico
In a dry region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, a woman named Valer Clark, from New York City, has had a major influence on land and water preservation.“There are four great...
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Rotting feral pig carcasses teach scientists what happens when tons of...
The unprecedented wildfire raging across Australia is not only destroying human lives, but has killed hundreds of millions of animals– perhaps billions before it is all over.Burning is not the only...
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10 years later, Haiti earthquake survivor reflects on broken promises and...
Haiti's calamitous earthquake a decade ago leveled much of the capital, killed tens of thousands and left some 1.5 million people homeless.The 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the poorest country in the...
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The sun sometimes rises: How one Russian city makes it through the polar night
On Sunday, Sergey Valitsky and his 6-year-old son, Valentin, took a bus into the hills to watch the sunrise. It wasn’t a trip they would make every weekend, but this was not just any sunrise: It would...
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Can UK communities go 'plastic free' with cultural shift?
The quiet path runs through a small forest of lush bamboo. Birds chirp overhead. It’s easy to forget that this little garden is right in the middle of Canary Wharf, one of the main financial districts...
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How will Brexit impact scientific research in the UK?
Britain will formally exit the EU at the end of this month.That date — Jan 31 — marks the beginning of a transition period that will last until the end of the year, when lawmakers in the EU and Britain...
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Meet the consultant who can help your business go zero waste
“Most of us are here because we want to save the world,” Catherine Conway tells the group of about a dozen women assembled in a co-working space in East London. “But how many of you actually have...
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At Davos, Trump touts US economy, but dismisses climate 'prophets of doom'
US President Donald Trump touted the success of the US economy in Davos, Switzerland, dismissing "perennial prophets of doom" on climate change to an audience that included Swedish teen climate...
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Africa’s producing more fertilizer, but it’s still not getting to all farmers
This story is part of a series by the Center for Public Integrity, Grist and The World about how our overuse of fertilizer harms the climate and endangers the public.For decades, fertilizer was too...
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Farming’s growing problem
This story is part of a series by the Center for Public Integrity, Grist and The World about how our overuse of fertilizer harms the climate and endangers the public.Everywhere Randy Souder looked, he...
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Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren’t cracking down on the...
This story is part of a series by the Center for Public Integrity, Grist and The World about how our overuse of fertilizer harms the climate and endangers the public.It was sunny and 82 degrees, a...
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200 years of exploring Antarctica — the world’s coldest, most forbidding and...
Antarctica is the remotest part of the world, but it is a hub of scientific discovery, international diplomacy and environmental change. It was officially discovered 200 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1820,...
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Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone
This story is part of a series by the Center for Public Integrity, Grist and The World about how our overuse of fertilizer harms the climate and endangers the public.The Ace of Trade trawler motored...
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