Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.

A family farm’s fight to recover from a devastating flood shows how the gridlock in Washington is only making it harder to grow and sell food.

Catastrophic tipping points are unfolding in nature. But humanity can exploit their beneficial counterparts to mitigate ...

The year-long series called Vital Signs will include stories from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WABE, Atlanta’s NPR station. Georgians are currently ...

Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth," but it's not too late for radical ...

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from Oklahoma oil wells.

Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the ...

The pipeline would add to a 10,000-mile network that runs all the way to Texas, carrying fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New York Harbor and terminating off Rockaway Beach, where it will connect ...

When automobiles first started tearing through American streets a century ago, they weren’t exactly welcome. One of the main problems was that they were killing children: in 1921 alone, 286 children ...

As the storm threatens Jamaica, "the role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is ...