Articles by Grist staff

Freeze Tibet

Global warming liquefying the glaciers of Tibet High-altitude Tibet is known as the “rooftop of the world,” but lately the roof is a bit saggy. Global warming is rapidly melting glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, water source for many of the region’s rivers. This great melt — already being felt in flooding — could eventually […]

Let Them Eat Hake

International caviar trade halted to save sturgeon Oh, man, this is going to cramp our style at Grist staff parties: A global ban on international export of wild caviar — salty black sturgeon eggs prized by gourmets — took effect on Tuesday. The U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species nixed the lucrative trade, […]

Forth by Northeast

Seven Northeastern states sign greenhouse-gas pact Thumbing their noses — or whatever states have where noses should be — at the Bush administration, seven Northeastern states have committed to cut their planet-toasting carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by the end of 2018. New York Gov. George Pataki (R) dreamed up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative […]

My Left Soot

EPA proposal on soot emissions ignores scientists, ticks off enviros Finally getting around to updating air-quality standards that were supposed to be revised in 2002, the U.S. EPA late last month unveiled a proposal that pleases … nobody. It would lower the daily limit for fine-soot pollution, which comes from coal-fired power plants, cars, and […]