Articles by Blanca Begert
Blanca Begert is the News Fellow at Grist. She was previously an editor and producer for environmental content at KCET / PBS SoCal.
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![An oil pump jack in a residential area in Southern California]()
![An oil pump jack in a residential area in Southern California]()
Drilling setbacks, net-zero, and a nuclear lifeline. Here’s what just happened in California.
The state passed a slate of bills that tighten up its climate plans.
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![Collage: an electric car hooked up to a charging station, mountains, a silhouette of North Carolina, a chunk of lithium ore, and a sign with the words]()
![Collage: an electric car hooked up to a charging station, mountains, a silhouette of North Carolina, a chunk of lithium ore, and a sign with the words]()
The electric vehicle boom could bring lithium mines back to North Carolina
Not all locals are happy about it.
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![People use a raft to move along a waterlogged street in a residential area after a heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad City in Pakistan]()
![People use a raft to move along a waterlogged street in a residential area after a heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad City in Pakistan]()
The ‘climate dystopia’ displacing millions of Pakistanis
Parts of the country have received 5 times more rainfall this August than average.
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![Yangtze River drought]()
![Yangtze River drought]()
As drought dries up the Yangtze river, China loses hydropower
No rain and a 70-day heat wave spur crop failures, power cuts, and dangerously-low reservoirs across parts of China.
