Articles by Grist staff

Don’t Be Such a Prudhoe

American oil supplies well past peak America’s domestic oil supplies are tapping out. At Alaska’s massive Prudhoe Bay field, output has dropped nearly 75 percent since 1987 highs. With mega-developing nations India and China gobbling up the world’s spare oil supply and U.S. demand still rising, engineers are now going after poorer grades of oil […]

Readers talk back on shaving, Saudis, nappies, and more

  Re: Stubble Trouble Dear Editor: I wanted to thank you for your recent column regarding environmentally responsible shaving. To be honest, straight razors scare the bejeebies out of me. However, it’s long seemed to be the only reasonable option. Your column has given me the push I needed to give it a shot, and […]

Bond Ambition

Missouri senator delays small-engine pollution regulation, again Small engines have a big impact — when you use a standard gas-powered lawn mower for an hour, you’ve spewed as much pollution as 50 cars driving 20 miles each. Nevertheless, someone builds those small engines, and that means jobs — specifically, jobs in Missouri, or more specifically […]

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Nets

Changes in fishing gear could save thousands of cetaceans a year Low-cost changes to commercial fishing gear could prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of whales, porpoises, and dolphins every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund. About 1,000 cetaceans drown every day after becoming entangled in fishing nets, primarily gillnets, which are hard […]