Articles by Grist staff

I Can't Believe We Made the Hole Thing

For the first time, the hole in the ozone layer has opened up over a populated city, New Zealand scientists say. The hole opened up for two days in early September over the Chilean city of Punta Arenas, exposing its 120,000 residents to very high levels of ultraviolet radiation and increasing their risk of skin […]

Sunny Day, Sweeping the Clouds Away

Though acting more slowly than enviros would like, BP Amoco and some other oil companies are developing alternative energy technologies at a faster pace than at any time since the energy crisis of the 1970s. As concern about climate change mounts, the companies realize that fossil fuels aren’t the wave of the future and see […]

The Tragedy of the Commoner

Just 35 municipal waste incinerators, cement kilns, and steel plants in the eastern and central U.S. accounted for one-third of the dioxin reaching the Canadian Arctic in one year, according to a study released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. The study represented the first time that dioxin pollution in the Arctic […]

Storm Troopers

Climate change seems already to be causing weather-related disasters, and the problem is likely to get worse, according to a recent report conducted by scientists at Vrije University in Amsterdam and released by the World Wildlife Fund. Like others before it, the report predicts more droughts and violent storms. It also anticipates that much of […]