The Republican-led House passed a bill on Tuesday ostensibly aimed at preventing a federal ban on gas stoves — a ban that no agency nor the White House has said is in the works. The bill passed by a 248-180 margin, with 29 Democrats joining the GOP…

Air quality alerts blew up the phones of millions of Americans this week as wildfire smoke from enormous blazes in Canada drifted south and turned New York and Washington D.C. into some of the most polluted cities in the world.The public health…

The newest alarm from scientists is far from the first. A timeline of such calls to action demonstrates just how long the world has been dragging its heels on climate. The world is on the verge of passing a crucial climate threshold within about a…

A new report adds some weight to the animal origins of the pandemic and demonstrates the complex ecology behind viral transmission between animals and people. Scientists investigating the origin of the pandemic reported Thursday that they had found…

The space agency and private contractor Axiom hope the new, more mobile suit will be ready for a planned return to the moon in 2025. On Wednesday morning, an engineer with private space company Axiom walked out onto a stage at NASA’s Johnson Space…

The ConocoPhillips drilling project in one of the country’s last great wildernesses would equal adding two million cars to the road every year for three decades. The Biden administration just approved a massive oil drilling project called Willow in…

A sign warns of harsh conditions at Owens Lake near Lone Pine, California, on Feb. 28. The dry lakebed used to be the single biggest source of dust pollution in the United States. Climate change and ever-thirstier people are helping to dry up the…

Call logs of train derailment hotline reveal confusion and unheeded early warnings from scientists about dioxin risk. On Feb. 17, a woman called an Environmental Protection Agency hotline set up to help respond to the train derailment and chemical…

Details of contamination remain murky as the town begins what could be a long remediation period. Public attention is drifting from the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, but the cleanup of the…

Two millions years’ worth of energy is under our feet. Why aren’t we using it? is the first story in a Grid series examining the slow, stalled or nonexistent progress on building out various types of clean tech. In 2009, geothermal energy was having…

Warnings from various institutions have made many think a date on the calendar spells doom. In 2018, the world got a particularly sobering report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): On its current path, the planet would be…

The world’s backward slide on fossil fuel subsidies in one chart. In late 2021, the countries of the world signed onto the Glasgow Climate Pact, a U.N.-sponsored agreement that listed as a goal the “phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.” It…

Experts are now warning about complacency as the war in Ukraine continues — and further energy shortages loom Crisis? What crisis? After months of fretting about the prospect of crippling shortfalls in energy supplies over the winter, as the flow of…

Attacks on water supplies are an ancient war tactic, but climate change is making water’s role in armed conflicts more likely. In a warming world, water is an increasingly precious resource — and it can also be used as a weapon when conflict breaks…

Nearly two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in Ohio, major questions still remain about the scope of the disaster and its potential long-term effects — uncertainty that conspiracy theorists have already rushed to exploit online.…

What are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view. On medieval European maps, the Arctic was often simply labeled Oceanus innavigabilis — unnavigable ocean — and regarded by scholars as a dark and unforgiving region, home to fearsome…

President Joe Biden gave a speech to a raucous House chamber on Tuesday night, weaving between his signature calls for bipartisanship while warning Republicans he’s ready for a fight, if necessary. Biden’s goal in his State of the Union address was…

What are 360s? Grid’s answer to stories that deserve a fuller view. The State of the Union is a chance for Joe Biden to boast about what he’s accomplished, pin blame on others for what he hasn’t and set his political agenda for the coming year. Ahead…

Survey also finds strong support for a ban on menthol cigarettes, which the Biden administration is pursuing. More than half of American adults support a blanket ban on sales of tobacco products — from cigarettes to vapes and chewing tobacco,…

The Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Wilmington Plant in Wilmington, California, reported a third quarter profit of $5.4 billion, 13 times more than the $402 million profit recorded for the same period last year. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)…