Climate Equity
All Stories
-
How a hot city can keep its cool
Cities are getting deadly hot, but we have good ways to cool them down.
-
![]()
![]()
New York’s hottest neighborhoods are taking on climate change’s deadliest threat
Extreme heat kills more than a hundred New Yorkers yearly. Here's how the city's tackling the problem in a warming world.
-
![]()
![]()
Hurricane Maria evacuees worry about jobs, housing, and if they’ll ever go home
Forced from Puerto Rico as a result of the storm, displaced storm survivors face losing housing again.
-
![]()
![]()
Minnesota just approved a new tar-sands pipeline. Activists say they will fight it.
Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 would run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Alberta, Canada.
-
![]()
![]()
Hurry! Only a few days left to apply for Grist’s fall fellowship.
Procrastinators, fear not. You still have (a little) time to apply for Grist's fellowship.
-
![]()
![]()
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy is retiring. Here’s what that means for the environment.
Over his 30-year tenure, Kennedy has been a mixed bag for environmentalists.
-
![]()
![]()
Big Oil touts offshore drilling jobs to communities most harmed by oil
Environmental justice leaders say communities shouldn't choose between jobs and a healthy community and environment.
-
![]()
![]()
Your sustainable scallops might have been caught with the help of shady labor practices
Do you really know how that fish wound up on your plate?
-
![]()
![]()
The government has been separating children from parents at the border. Now the border is flooding.
Torrential rains are flooding south Texas, where hundreds of child migrants are detained.
-
![]()
![]()
San Francisco residents were sure nearby industry was harming their health. They were right.
New research shows that after a local power plant closed, reproductive health improved among residents of Bayview-Hunters Point.
