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Summer forecast: Extreme heat with a chance of rolling blackouts
WEBMay 20, 2022 · That means an unreliable grid. When there isn’t enough power, operators set off outages, rolling blackouts, to avoid long-term damage to the grid. About two-thirds of the U.S. is vulnerable to a ...
Here’s why this new fracking ban in the Northeast is a big deal
WEBMar 3, 2021 · The Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile area bisected by a sparkling river that stretches from New York’s Catskill Mountains to the Delaware Bay, is officially closed to fracking. Last ...
What is the Indigenous landback movement — and can it help the …
WEBNov 25, 2020 · The past, present, and future of the landback movement. Nickita Longman is a Saulteaux* woman from George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Longman is a writer and community organizer ...
How perennial wheat could reverse the damage of industrial
WEBSep 13, 2022 · That’s important, advocates say, because farms must be encouraged to plant more perennials of all kinds, not just wheat. Fields full of perennial grains, legumes, and oilseed crops could re ...
How do I get my neighbors to stop littering? - Grist
WEBApr 8, 2021 · Turns out that litter begets more litter. If you see a sidewalk or parklet scattered with cigarette butts and beer cans and chip bags, you’re more likely to toss your own detritus there. The ...
Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync
WEBJul 30, 2024 · One of the smallest, and potentially most worrisome, animals being affected are insect pollinators, like bees, flies, butterflies, and moths. These arthropods are crucial for our food system: They ...
One of the most biodiverse regions in the US is also its least ... - Grist
WEBJan 22, 2021 · The Southeast U.S. is one of the most biodiverse temperate regions in the world, handily beating out the Western U.S. when it comes to the number of endemic species. But most of the Southeast’s ...
They derailed climate action for a decade. And bragged about it.
WEBApr 15, 2022 · With 79 members at its height in 1991, the coalition helped lay the groundwork for efforts to delay action on climate change for decades to come. It would not just deny the science, but also argue ...
After 20 years of advocacy, Black farmers finally get debt relief
WEBMar 11, 2021 · Advocacy groups say the debt relief will begin to rectify decades of broken promises and discrimination from the USDA that caused Black farmers to lose roughly 90 percent of their land between ...