Articles by Grist staff

Browner-nosing

EPA Nominee Asks Former Agency Chief for Support Mike Leavitt, President Bush’s choice to become the next head of the U.S. EPA, knows that environmentally minded Democrats are going to make his confirmation hearings tough, so he’s getting his ducks in a row. Within a day of his nomination by Bush, Leavitt had called Carol […]

Global Warming, I Presume?

Lake Tanganyika Under Threat from Climate Change The ecology of Lake Tanganyika — Africa’s second-largest body of water and site of the famed encounter between Henry Stanley and David Livingstone — is under siege due to global climate change, according to studies by two independent teams of scientists. The scientists have found that rising air […]

Some Like It Cool

Seeking Relief from Heat, Europeans Turn to Air Conditioning Concerned about their health and wary of technology, Europeans have long cast a skeptical eye on that most commonplace of U.S. appliances, the air conditioner. But this summer’s blistering heat has begun to change all that. Air conditioner sales in Europe are growing by more than […]

Turtle Goop

Oil Spill off Pakistan’s Coast Threatens Marine Life Hundreds of dead turtles and fish are washing ashore near Pakistan’s port city of Karachi — victims of an oil spill emanating from a Greek tanker that ran aground nearby late last month. A massive oil slick from the ship has hit the shore, despite workers’ efforts […]