As countries try to find agreement on plastic pollution, creative interventions are turning heads — and turning the conversation to health harms, fossil fuels, and false solutions.

In our new series, The Disaster Economy, Grist exposes the systems that turn recovery into a marketplace — and gives readers like you the tools to navigate and challenge them.

Two years after the devastating 2023 Maui wildfires, homeowners may be facing the prospect of repaying mortgage loans ...

Two days after wildfires broke out in Los Angeles last January, tech founder Edward Kushins and real estate agent Willie Baronet-Israel allegedly hiked the price of a home they were renting out in the ...

A Native Hawaiian mother’s fight to keep her family in Lāhainā despite soaring costs, mortgage limbo, and land-hungry investors eager to own a piece of Hawaiʻi.

This summer’s hatchlings won’t be back on land for 30 years. It’ll take at least that long to know how global warming is changing them.

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

Over 3.5 million acres of federal waters are no longer eligible for offshore wind development following an order from the Interior Department.

It is the state’s largest ever settlement for “forever chemicals,” holding DuPont and its spin-offs accountable for ...

But a growing body of research is reinforcing the knowledge that wildfire smoke is much more than an inconvenience — in fact, it’s actually killing far more people than the flames themselves. New ...

Research shows the extent of plastic pollution today — and why the U.N. is negotiating a treaty to keep it from getting worse.

Community groups, businesses, and consumers say projects face an uncertain future after Republicans slashed renewable energy ...