Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

Grist

@grist.org

53K followers 96 following 2K posts

We're a nonprofit news org dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Get our journalism in your inbox: https://grist.org/subscribe/

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Grist @grist.org · Nov 12

Be sure to follow Grist's starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Grist @grist.org · 12h

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.

grist.org/climate/the-...

#Ocean #Climate #Heat #Science #Environment

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.

Grist @grist.org · 12h

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Politics #Oil #FossilFuel #Politics #Report #News

New report examines fossil fuel ties of dozens of Trump administration hires

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 fossil-fuel industry insiders among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

grist.org/labor/indone...

#Indonesia #China #Chinese #Nickle #EV #Batteries

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 2d

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.

A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light

A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 1d

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

grist.org/fix/climate-...

#Culture #Literature #Solarpunk #Afrofuturism #EcoFiction

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary

Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 1d

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?

grist.org/accountabili...

#Climate #EPA #GreenSky #Nature #Environment #Policy

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

The U.S. workplace regulator is considering a federal heat rule — if the shutdown doesn’t delay it further.

grist.org/business/sim...

#Climate #Heat #Health #OSHA #Unions

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

New research shows there's a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

Grist @grist.org · 1d

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#Renewables #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Batteries

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

Here's your climate fiction short story to read for the weekend.

Sweet Water From Salt

A grieving son protects his family’s beehives as he steers them home aboard his parents’ ship.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Fiction #ClimateFiction #Solarpunk #BookSky

Sweet Water From Salt

From the Imagine 2200 cli-fi collection: A grieving son protects his family’s beehives as he steers them home aboard his parents’ ship.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

Albert Carter @albertcarter.bsky.social couldn’t find a nonprofit that knew what to do with his coding skills—so he built one. His group, Bank.Green, uses #AI to expose which banks fund the climate crisis.

grist.org/fix/grist-50...

#Banks #Finance #Investments #Climate

Grist @grist.org · 1d

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

grist.org/fix/climate-...

#Culture #Literature #Solarpunk #Afrofuturism #EcoFiction

From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary

Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone.

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

grist.org/oceans/the-o...

#Oceans #Fish #Seas #Water #Climate

The oceans just hit an ominous milestone

A new report sounds the alarm on mounting ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries."

Grist @grist.org · 1d

How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction.

Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.

grist.org/food-and-agr...

#Health #Climate #Suger #Diet #Food

How climate change is fueling your sugar addiction

Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.

Grist @grist.org · 1d

The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it.

grist.org/food-and-agr...

#Hunger #Family #Children #Food #USDA

The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 2d

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet.

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Youth #Climate #Law #Legal #Indigenous

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

Grist @grist.org · 2d

Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse’s toxic emissions are to blame.

After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.

grist.org/accountabili...

#ElPaso #TX

Breast cancer, dizziness, headaches: El Paso residents ask if a warehouse's toxic emissions are to blame

After a Grist investigation revealing exposure to the carcinogen ethylene oxide, El Paso residents confront troubling questions about their health.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 5d

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

grist.org/health/valle...

#AZ #Arizona #Climate #Health #PublicHealth #Disease

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies

What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 3d

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles.

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

grist.org/labor/indone...

#Indonesia #Indonesian #EV #China #Chinese #Batteries

Inside the Indonesian boomtowns powering the world’s electric vehicles

Thousands of miles from home, Chinese migrant workers run the nickel-processing plants that do the dirty work of the clean energy transition.

Grist @grist.org · 2d

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet.

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Youth #Climate #Law #Legal #Indigenous

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

Grist @grist.org · 2d

This climate fiction story could be a Pixar movie. It's really good.

The Cloud Weaver’s Song

In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.

grist.org/climate-fict...

#Fiction #Solarpunk #Library #Climate

The Cloud Weaver’s Song

From the Imagine 2200 climate fiction contest: In a city high above the desert, a dew harvester and her friend sacrifice everything to prove the end of the Great Drying is at hand.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 2d

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

grist.org/internationa...

#GreenSky #Energy #Climate #Solar #Wind #Renewables

As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.

Grist @grist.org · 2d

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.

A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.

grist.org/accountabili...

#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military

Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light

A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.

Reposted by Grist

Grist @grist.org · 5d

Climate action isn’t stopping. The 2025 Grist50 spotlights 50 people reshaping arts, tech, food, land, policy and science. 10 years, 500 change-makers. Progress is alive — meet the leaders moving us forward.

Read more here: grist.org/fix/grist-50...

#Climate #Leadership #Arts #Tech #Business #Land

Introducing the 2025 Grist 50 list

Climate solutions are more important now than ever. Read about 50 leaders shaping the future of climate progress.

Grist @grist.org · 2d

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap.

A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.

grist.org/climate/this...

#Cooperative #Climate #BioCar #Tech #Workers

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap

A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.