Articles by Grist staff

Absolutely Cabulous

New Hybrid Taxis Taking Off Once the sole province of eco-conscious consumers willing to pay a little extra to reduce their environmental footprint, gas-electric hybrid vehicles have found an eager new consumer demographic: taxi services. In urban areas from Vancouver to Boston to New York City, taxi operators are getting hep to the benefits of […]

Drain Oh!

Harsh Western Drought May Be the Norm, Say Scientists The harsh drought that has been plaguing the American West in recent years is set to produce a raft of environmental, political, and social crises, but we’d better get used to it, say some scientists. Research into the drought cycles of the past 800 years increasingly […]

From Russia With Wood

Russia’s Siberian Forests in Danger The Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia is Russia’s most significant timber-producing area, which is saying something in a massive country 70 percent covered by forest. But the region’s forests are threatened from all sides, say activists. Illegal logging is rampant; in fact, up to 30 percent of all logging in Russia […]

You Do Have to Live Like a Refugee

Pacific-Island Dwellers Suffer from Global Warming Now is not a good time to live on a small Pacific island. Thanks to global warming, many researchers say, species on such islands face a variety of perils. The living coral that surrounds the islands reacts to warmer ocean temperatures by bleaching, or as the vernacular has it, […]