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Homes and structures destroyed by the Eaton Fire lie in ruins on March 3, 2025 in Altadena, California.
Climate Change

Your home has a 1 in 4 chance of being at severe risk from extreme weather

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

a tick crawling up a person's pants
Diseases

A malaria-like disease spread by ticks is moving into Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

Workers, community members, and business owners clean up debris in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Marshall, North Carolina on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
Weather

Fact-checking the viral conspiracies in the wake of Hurricane Helene

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

A lab technologist with the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness holds test tubes full of liquified mosquito remains in a lab at Health Department headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.
Health

How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

Researchers confirmed in the 1950s that the Culex genus of mosquito — dawn and dusk biters that prefer to feed on birds — were the primary vector of West Nile disease.
Climate Change

When West Nile virus turns deadly

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

moth
Insects

What’s behind the record outbreak of spongy moths in the eastern US?

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

Hurricane Ian stirred up flesh-eating bacteria in Florida
Weather

Hurricane Ian stirred up flesh-eating bacteria in Florida

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

Climate change is killing people, but we don’t know exactly how many
Climate Change

Climate change is killing people, but we don’t know exactly how many

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

Summer is off to an extreme start—here’s why
Climate Change

Summer is off to an extreme start—here’s why

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

The earliest spring on record is bad news for the eastern US
Global Warming

The earliest spring on record is bad news for the eastern US

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist