This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live.  Summer afternoons on Florida Bay are a wonder. The sky, bright blue and dotted with clouds, meets…

Hurricane Lee, a mammoth peak-season storm in the Atlantic, is making a beeline for New England and Canada. Once a Category 5 storm, Lee weakened to Category 1 by the time it made a northward pivot and began its march…

The vision “We know that there are actual real-life impacts between communities that don’t have access to the health benefits of trees and those that do.” Benita Hussain, tree equity lead at American Forests The spotlight This summer, when the…

From BBC Published12 SeptemberShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, NASA By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet. It may have detected a molecule…

Whenever Ram Amar explains his idea for mitigating climate change, people usually look at him strangely and ask if he’s crazy. It’s easy to see why.  His startup, Rewind, wants to sequester a gigaton of carbon each year — about…