Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has released ...

Here’s a sobering fact: Even if the entire world transitions away from fossil fuels, the way we farm and eat will cause global temperatures to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — the critical threshold set in the Paris Climate Agreement.

The realities of climate change exist. Our current administration ignores precautionary warnings, and attacks or eliminates existing programs and policies designed to mitigate the effects of excessive carbon in the atmosphere. Global temperatures continue ...

The people most harmed by ecological violence are usually the least represented in the stories we consume about climate change. That’s why the podcast A People’s Climate exists. Most Americans know the climate crisis through statistics: degrees of ...

There is one crucial argument that the climate justice movement carried with it. For a brief period of time, it seemed like it was integrated into the general knowledge of social movements. It wasn’t. The argument is about the meaning of climate emergency.