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The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water
The surging demand for data is guzzling Virginia’s water The commonwealth is home to the data center capital of the world. Can it handle AI’s thirst? Google Every email you send has a home. Every uploaded file, web search, and social media post does, too. In massive buildings erected from miles of concrete, stacked servers […]
Burn After Wearing
Burn After Wearing A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames. Cheng Hwa This story was produced by Grist and co-published with El País. A Spanish-language version can be read here. Reporting was supported by the Joan Konner Program in the Journalism of Ideas. On the morning of June 12, 2022, Ángela Astudillo, […]
It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it.
It will cost up to $21.5 billion to clean up California’s oil sites. The industry won’t make enough money to pay for it. An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected […]
‘It doesn’t have to be this way’: Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana’s oil industry
‘It doesn’t have to be this way’: Lessons from the slow death of Louisiana’s oil industry The Gulf Coast is bleeding oil jobs. Here’s what it tells us about a just transition. AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber David Dismukes studies the energy industry for a living. As the executive director of the Center for Energy Studies at […]
Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study
David McNew / Getty Images Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study The month of December opened with good news and bad news for people concerned about the climate crisis. A climate analysis released by the independent watchdog group Climate Action Tracker said that based on promises made by Paris Climate […]
Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining
Going 100% renewable power means a lot of dirty mining Preface. Everyone talks about oil spills, but what about the dirty mining that will have a huge polluting footprint on the earth, and potentially destroy the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery among other side-effects? Renewables aren’t cleaner and greener than fossils, and require a hell […]
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in Prepare yourself for grisly descriptions of how the body breaks down in overwhelming heat, predictions of prehistoric plagues springing back to life beneath melting permafrost, and the possibility of an economic collapse several times worse than the Great Depression. David Wallace-Wells’ […]
Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies
ICE TO KNOW YA Doomsday postponed? What to take from the big new Antarctica studies There’s grim, mixed news out about Antarctica. Two new papers on melting Antarctic ice come just days after NASA scientists announced the discovery of a massive subterranean hole in West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, the Florida-sized hunk of ice which alone could unleash […]
Still Toxic After All These Years
Grist / EuToch / Getty Images / Alison Cassidy Still Toxic After All These Years Nearly a quarter-century after winning millions from PG&E, the ‘Erin Brockovich’ town continues its fight for clean water. It was a sweltering, 117-degree July day in Hinkley, California. The surface of the 13-mile highway east to Barstow had become an asphalt […]
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go? Q.I am not giving up … but if I were to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption? — Uneasy in a U-Haul A.Dear Uneasy, So you want to escape climate change. That’s a reasonable impulse — climate change […]
Why should I sacrifice when big companies are to blame for climate change?
ASK UMBRA Why should I sacrifice when big companies are to blame for climate change? Q.Why should I feel guilty for flying abroad for vacation or having a child when 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of CO2 emissions? And how do I hold those companies responsible for climate change when every facet of […]
We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
Grist / Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images We broke down what climate change will do, region by region Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to. Look, at this point, even the most stubborn among us know that climate change is coming for our asses. We really don’t […]
With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival
With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival This week, scientists and representatives from every country on Earth are gathering in South Korea to put the finishing touches on a report that, if followed, would change the course of history. The report is a roadmap for possible ways to keep climate […]
The 1.5 Generation
Grist / Amelia Bates The 1.5 Generation My generation is radically remaking climate activism. Will it be enough? My generation, the millennials, will never know a time when climate change wasn’t a grave threat. Back in 1988, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the 350 parts per million level when I was still watching Sesame […]
