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This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. On Tuesday morning, Representative Sean Casten from Illinois stood on the House floor with a poster of the album art for Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hot Girl Summer” propped against a display easel beside …

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Picture this: two babies born on the same day, maybe even within the same hour, at the Harlem Hospital Center in New York City. One baby, born to a Black mother, goes home …

For decades, various industries have weaponized American individualism, laying the blame for systemic issues at the feet of individual citizens. Tobacco companies wouldn’t exist without smokers, the story goes. Litter wouldn’t exist without us litterbugs. Cars wouldn’t crash if we weren’t such speed freaks. And, of course, climate change wouldn’t …

After the first day of President Biden’s two-day climate summit this week, one could easily have the impression that global leaders are very, very good people who take the climate crisis very, very seriously. Biden had summoned together 40 heads of state from all the most powerful nations of the …

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. When singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman began talking very explicitly and openly about the climate crisis on social media in 2018, she received an overwhelming response from fellow artists. “Musicians reached out to me …

Despite what Fox News and your wacky uncle may tell you, there is a preponderance of extremely convincing scientific evidence that climate change is happening, that it’s happening fast, and that it very well may be irreversible. But on the off-chance that you’re looking for more evidence that this is …

The Trump Administration is responsible for causing the largest reduction of protected public lands in U.S. history, according to a comprehensive study published this week in the journal Science. In 2017, the study noted, President Trump enacted two of the largest reductions of federally protected lands, shrinking Bears Ears by …

This is the first dispatch in a series from Jeff Goodell, who will be investigating the effect of climate change on Thwaites glacier. READ: The Doomsday Glacier I’m writing this aboard the Nathanial B. Palmer, a 308 foot-long ocean research vessel that is, at this moment, tied up at a …