Articles by Grist staff

Supply and the Land

Cities spending millions on land to protect water supplies Many U.S. cities are discovering they have a choice: Build huge, multibillion-dollar water-treatment plants, or buy up land around water supplies to prevent them from being polluted in the first place. More and more, they are choosing the latter option — derailing sprawl and protecting open […]

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 […]