Syris Valentine
About Syris Valentine
Syris Valentine is the 2024-2025 Grist climate solutions reporting fellow.
Do extreme weather events make people care more about climate change? Depends
Over the last seven years, as the effects of climate change have begun to envelop the world in smoke and storm, natural disasters have in fact leapt front of mind for voters when they contemplate the most important reasons to take climate action. Those concerns, however, aren’t shared evenly across the political spectrum.
Scientists want to build a ‘doomsday’ vault on the moon
Climate change is threatening Earth's biodiversity. Could frozen regions of the moon be the best place to "back up" lifeforms?
With rivers across the West running low, utilities get creative
Last year offered energy providers in the region a glimpse of the conditions they may need to adapt to as the world warms and seasonal weather patterns shift.
Young climate activists now have rich friends in their corner
The Youth Climate Action Fund intends to help 100 cities worldwide better incorporate the voices and visions of young people into how they imagine and enact climate policies.
‘Green banks’ are getting billions to decarbonize disadvantaged communities
The Biden administration just distributed $20 billion in IRA funding to loan to individuals and communities across the country.
‘Reef stars’ restored Indonesia’s dynamite-damaged corals in just four years
A community-based approach to restoration combined with an ingenious device can bring back reefs traumatized by dynamite fishing.