The latest from the Grist on the environment
For "the caribou people," protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge means protecting a way of life.
Posted: February 11, 2026, 9:45 am
Power companies are already building more costly fossil fuel infrastructure than data centers may actually need.
Posted: February 10, 2026, 6:26 pm
As tech giants find creative ways to generate electricity, they’re building a glut of new fossil fuel projects.
Posted: February 10, 2026, 9:45 am
Advances in drilling and subsurface engineering are unlocking a constant, clean power source deep within the Earth.
Posted: February 10, 2026, 9:30 am
Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on how ice coverage has shifted since 1897. Researchers are already using it to study a declining fish species.
Posted: February 9, 2026, 9:45 am
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
Posted: February 8, 2026, 2:00 pm
Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really matters.
Posted: February 7, 2026, 2:00 pm
Returning Indigenous land won't destroy civilization, it could save it.
Posted: February 6, 2026, 11:08 pm
How Britain's new "green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.
Posted: February 6, 2026, 9:45 am
A new report indicates that Trump administration policies led to billions of dollars in canceled investment and tens of thousands of lost jobs.
Posted: February 6, 2026, 9:30 am