Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a ...

An internal memo reviewed by Grist showed the National Weather Service has stopped translating radio alerts in the southern ...

Louis Blessing’s wife asked for his help replacing the battery in her laptop. An electrical engineer by training, Blessing figured it would be a quick fix. But after swapping out the old battery for a ...

Soaring egg prices have people flocking to buy chickens of their own, creating a nationwide shortage of chicks.

A new study confirms what residents in Louisiana oil towns have long suspected: They get all the pollution but very few of the jobs.

The wristbands will also feature a QR code that leads to a survey asking attendees how they traveled to the Earth Night event ...

Nondairy milks — fortified drinks like soy, almond, oat, and rice milk — have varying impacts on the environment and climate, but all of these plant-based alternatives use less land and water than cow ...

Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.

In Seattle, community assemblies are gathering frontline community members to set their own policies around extreme weather.

Each year, all the cargo ships that crisscross the oceans carrying cars, building materials, food, and other goods emit about 3 percent of the world’s climate pollution. That’s about as much ...

Last week, Missouri governor Mike Kehoe signed into law a bill that packaged together dozens of reforms to utility regulations. Among them was a provision called “construction work in progress ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. Chicago city leaders are set to consider a major ...