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It’s an early May afternoon, and Charlie Barrett has parked his pickup in a pullout along a county road a few hundred feet ...

A legacy of deforestation has left Ethiopia struggling with more intense flooding and drought. The country is trying to ...

This story is part of the Grist series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled drought is reshaping communities, economies, and ecosystems. The California water wars of the early ...

These two cannot agree on the nature of what they’re doing onstage. Is the story of climate change a farcical comedy or a ...

Something strange just popped up in the Gulf of Mexico: a hurricane. Well, not so much Hurricane Isaias, which storm-watchers expect to make landfall as a Category 2 somewhere between the coast of ...

Trump brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies hope they can revive the industry under the ...

Like many big cities, New York teems with delivery workers who bring takeout, groceries, and any number of other things to ...

In order to solve climate change, you have to do two things — stop burning fossil fuels, and build clean energy to replace ...

Researchers have known for decades how to prevent and treat heat illness, but a patchwork of policies has left players like ...

Heating oil costs could jump 50 percent in the Northeast, testing a safety net that the Trump administration has repeatedly ...

The Supreme Court once billed the Endangered Species Act as “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of ...