By Frida Garza, Grist Americans waste more than 300 pounds of food per person per year, study says. Boston Globe / Getty Images The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis from the University of California, Davis. In …
How to take Scope 3 Emissions from Data to Action
Sustainable Brands For Scope 3 to be monitored successfully, Scope 1 and 2 emissions reporting must be mandated across all businesses and suppliers, no matter their size. Scope 3 inventories have become an essential tool for organisations that are looking to take meaningful action to improve the environmental impact of their …
Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks
By Diana Kruzman, Inside Climate News The bogs, logged for centuries and recently burned, sequester far more carbon than forests. Now, thousands of acres are being “rewetted” as part of a restoration strategy. Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick …
A Court Says Coastal Marine Ecosystems Have Intrinsic Value—and Legal Rights
By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News In a landmark ruling, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court concluded that the government must set limits on human activity, like industrial fishing, to protect marine ecosystems’ natural cycles. Fish and sharks swim around North Seymour Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands on March 8, 2024. Credit: Ernesto …
A secret weapon in agriculture’s climate fight: Ants
By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist Ants — yes, ants — could protect apples, nuts, cocoa, and other beloved crops from disease and climate change. Ida Cecilie Jensen The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of …
2024 was hottest year on record for world’s land and oceans, US scientists confirm
By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Noaa says last year was the warmest since records began in 1850 and Nasa concurs: ‘The long-term trends are very clear’ It was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s lands and oceans in 2024, US government scientists have confirmed, providing yet another measure …
California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline
By Liza Gross, The Guardian Conservation groups are working with Central Valley farmers to restore critical habitat for wetland birds struggling to subsist on a fraction of their historic wintering grounds. But finding the right spots is challenging. Sandhill cranes fly in for the night at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve …
What happens when a wildfire reaches a city?
By Li Zhou, Vox The Los Angeles wildfires show how blazes can spread in the most urban landscapes, too. Firefighters stand below as brush and trees burn during the Sunset Fire near Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles on January 8, 2025. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Multiple major wildfires, …
NOAA chief defends agency’s weather, climate, other work
By Andrew Freedman, Axios NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad speaks at an event at Florida International University in Miami on Aug. 1, 2022. Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images NOAA administrator Rick Spinrad is leaving the federal atmosphere and oceans agency at an uncertain, increasingly stormy time. Why it matters: In an …
People are flocking to Florida. Will there be enough water for them?
Sachi Kitajima Mulkey & Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist Climate change, a development boom, and overexploitation of groundwater are draining the Sunshine State. Grist / Amelia K. Bates While wading through wetlands in the headwaters of the Everglades, where tall, serrated grasses shelter alligators and water moccasins, agroecologist Elizabeth Boughton described one of Florida’s …