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 ...
Helene and Milton reveal a new threat for first responders: EV fires ...
Oct 11, 2024 · When a hurricane like Helene or Milton ravages coastal communities, already-strained first responders face a novel, and growing, threat: the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles, e ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders …
Nov 20, 2024 · Brown’s peaches aren’t your everyday peaches, they’re heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears.
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 ...
Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. No one knows who'll …
Oct 4, 2024 · Helene will likely cause around $6.4 billion in insured damages, according to the catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Company — a tiny figure for a direct hit from a Category 4 hurricane ...