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Trump’s environmental policies are reshaping everyday life. Here’s how.

Posted on July 30, 2025 by Grist staff | 0 Comments

Over the last six months, Americans have been inundated with a near-constant stream of announcements from the federal government — programs shuttered, funding cut, jobs eliminated, and regulations gutted. President Donald Trump and his administration are executing a systematic dismantling…

UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Pallab Ghosh | 0 Comments

3 hours ago ShareSave Pallab GhoshGwyndaf Hughes Science Videographer ShareSave Amanda Clark/Cabinet Office Astronomer Prof Michele Dougherty did not study science in secondary school – but was instead inspired to learn more about space after using her father’s telescope. Now…

Why plane turbulence is really becoming more frequent – and more severe

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Simon King | 0 Comments

3 hours ago ShareSave Simon King ShareSave BBC Andrew Davies was on his way to New Zealand to work on a Doctor Who exhibition, for which he was project manager. The first leg of his flight from London to Singapore…

New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation, UN expert warns

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Ione Wells | 0 Comments

A new law in Brazil could cause “significant environmental harm and human rights violations”, and represents a “rollback for decades” of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a UN expert has told BBC News. Plans to speed up approvals…

US to scrap landmark finding that sets limit on carbon emissions

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Bernd Debusmann Jr | 0 Comments

The Trump administration has announced a plan to scrap a landmark finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment, severely curbing the federal government’s ability to combat climate change. Known as the “Endangerment Finding”, the 2009 order from then-President…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Matt Simon | 0 Comments

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples…

Wildfires rage in Greece and Turkey as extreme heat persists

Posted on July 27, 2025 by Nikos Papanikolaou | 0 Comments

Greece continued to battle major wildfires across the country amid a severe heatwave, but firefighters have brought many outbreaks under control. Extreme heat persisted, with temperatures reaching 42.4C (108.32F) in central Greece on Sunday. Firefighters were working on five major…

Government raises maximum price for wind energy

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Helen Catt | 0 Comments

The government has increased the maximum price it is prepared to guarantee companies generating electricity from new wind farms. It comes as ministers are trying to meet challenging pledges to bring down household bills and create an electricity grid that…

They lost their jobs and funding under Trump. What did communities lose?

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Grist staff | 0 Comments

In the first six months of the second Trump administration, some 60,000 federal workers have been targeted for layoffs, even more have taken buyouts, and up to trillions of dollars in funding has been frozen or halted. Many more people…

There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Matt Simon | 0 Comments

Like so much of an iceberg is hidden underwater, much of a tree is hidden underground. While the trunk and branches and leaves sequester planet-warming carbon dioxide, trees and other plants have long formed subterranean alliances with mycorrhizal fungi, which…