When Rebecca Lindsey was fired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last February, the first thing she did...

The cruise ship departed Ushuaia, Argentina, in April with plans to ferry 147 passengers and crew members to some of...

At the Department of Agriculture’s research division, everyone knows there’s one word they should never say, according to Ethan Roberts....

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Salud con lupa. It is part of the Grist series Vital Signs, exploring...

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in...

For the last three decades, the United Nations-affiliated body called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in...

Since 2019, the 191 countries that are party to an international agreement called the Basel Convention have agreed to classify...

The next time you’re on a flight worrying about destroying the planet, rest easy knowing that at least you’re not...

When wildfires devastated a wide swath of Los Angeles last winter, officials warned residents of several ZIP codes not to...

Rescue crews are scrambling to find survivors of catastrophic flooding that tore through Central Texas on the Fourth of July....

When Superstorm Sandy made a beeline for New York City in October 2012, it flooded huge swaths of downtown Manhattan,...

In December 2022, Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth:...