Articles by Grist staff

2100: A Heat Odyssey

By 2100, the average world temperature could rise between 2.5 and 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report released today in Shanghai by the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This estimate is significantly higher than the 1.8- to 6.3-degree rise predicted by the IPCC in 1995. The Shanghai report, the third such assessment by […]

Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness

Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, “unmanageable by any earthly force though they are.” She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Monday, 22 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah But yield who will to […]

Heavy Sigh-anide

A cyanide spill in northeastern Romania has killed thousands of fish and now poses a health hazard to humans, government officials said yesterday. The spill occurred when the contents of a storage container at a recently closed chemical plant spread from a rain gutter into a tributary of the Siret River, raising cyanide levels in […]

NOPEC, No Way, No How

Queensland state leaders in Australia have delighted enviros by pressing the federal government to reject a plan to explore for oil near the Great Barrier Reef. The federal environment minister, Robert Hill, says he will respond within a week to a proposal by the company TGS NOPEC to carry out a seismic survey about 35 […]