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Zoya works for Grist, a national online climate change magazine based in Seattle. Her writing can be found in Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Salon, The Verge, and other places.
This story originally appeared in Grist . It is republished here as part of Rolling Stone's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Does Texas, the metaphorical oil tank of the American petroleum operation, care about climate change?
In a typical Alaska Native community, 30 percent of the households harvest 70 percent or more of that enclave's wild food. The bounty is shared among family members and given to single mothers, the elderly, and the disabled. It's impossible to separate the communal aspect of subsistence living from the sustenance it provides.
was produced and originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the collaboration. When Peter Coughlin was in his sophomore year at James Madison University in northern Virginia, he was besieged by a strange and unsettling illness. At random times throughout the night, Coughlin would wake up with hives, full body chills, and raging fevers.
This story was originally published by Grist . It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Alaska isn't exactly the first state you'd expect to embrace a price on carbon. Yet the state legislature will likely be weighing one after the November elections.
Todd Tanner has a pretty sweet offer for his fellow Montanans: a new shotgun in exchange for science-based evidence that he's wrong about climate change. The conservationist uses the challenge in an attempt to raise awareness about our warming planet.
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Todd Tanner has a pretty sweet offer for his fellow Montanans: a new shotgun in exchange for science-based evidence that he's wrong about climate change.
In 2017, the planet broke records. The United States endured an unprecedented wildfire season - that's just now finally ending. Periods of extreme drought followed by intense flooding caused massive mudslides, forcing thousands of people on the West Coast to evacuate.