Electricity prices in the U.S. are rising sharply, but the burden of rising bills isn’t evenly distributed. A Yale Climate Connections analysis of electricity prices has found that data centers and ...

In a previous bookshelf, Yale Climate Connections highlighted 12 works of climate fiction published in 2025. In this post, we suggest 12 books that will appeal to climate readers of non-fiction. The ...

Billy Stinson (L), his wife Sandra Stinson (C) and daughter Erin Stinson comfort each other as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood August 28, 2011 in Nags Head, North Carolina. The ...

13) Unnamed, Aug. 31, 1933: Bahamas (Mayaguana), 160 mph, pressure unknown 13) Unnamed, Sep. 5, 1932: Bahamas (Abaco), 160 mph, pressure unknown 13) San Filipe Hurricane, Sep. 28, 1928: Puerto Rico, ...

Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a ...

Meteorologist David Kramer from the National Weather Service office in Anchorage gave an online update from the Alaska Emergency Operations Center on Sunday, October 12, as a powerful coastal storm ...

In early 2025, Mercedes-Benz ran its first road tests of an electric passenger car powered by a prototype solid-state battery pack. The carmaker predicts the next-gen battery will increase the ...

This past spring, a new library opened in Buffalo, New York. But instead of books, it lends out electric bikes. Harvey Miles is program director of the E-Bike Library. It’s run by the East Side Bike ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by (L-R) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary ...

Flash floods have been front and center in this month’s U.S. weather picture, while tropical cyclones have been mostly lying low, as we discussed in our July 18 Eye on the Storm post. The year’s ...

Nathan Sharpe grieves at the entrance to the Hunt city square on July 9, 2025, in Hunt, Texas, after heavy rainfall caused severe flash flooding throughout the hill country and various cities along ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region. The American prairie was so vast, so alien, it shattered ...