Articles by Grist staff

Whatever Floats Your House

Netherlands Prepares for Climate Change with Amphibious Homes Builders in the low-lying Netherlands have always used ingenious means to keep the water out: If not for a series of dikes and canals, some half of the country would be under water. But now, with climate-change scientists predicting rising sea levels and more frequent severe storms, […]

Superfund could be weakened by recommendations from EPA subcommittee

Arsenic in water, mercury emissions, new-source review, Dick Cheney’s energy task force — these are the issues that have elicited the loudest howls of protest about the Bush administration’s environmental record during the past three years. By comparison, the grumbling over Superfund has been remarkably muted. Mountains of toxic waste dot the horizon around Tar […]

Buoys in the Hood

Hood Canal One of Growing Number of Dead Zones Hood Canal is dying in slow motion, victim of a growing oxygen-deprived “dead zone,” and there is little political will or means to save it. The misleadingly named body of water — it’s actually a fjord, closed on one end — is the deep-water arm of […]

Earth Still Round, Still Warming

New Study Fills in Missing Piece of Global-Warming Science A new study published in the journal Nature has filled in a crucial missing piece in the science of global warming — one that has served as a talking point for climate-change skeptics. At issue is a seeming discrepancy: The lower portion of the earth’s atmosphere, […]