Articles by Grist staff

Of Ice and Men

A 345-square-mile iceberg — 10 times larger than Manhattan — has broken off from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, the National Ice Center reported Friday. The Ross Ice Shelf is one of two large ice fields on the continent that have seen increased calving of massive icebergs in recent years, which some scientists suggest could be […]

Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Stacy Mitchell is a researcher with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit organization that provides research, analysis, and innovative policy solutions for building healthy communities and strong, sustainable local economies. She is author of The Home Town Advantage. Monday, 2 Oct 2000 TOLEDO, Ohio I am at the airport, […]

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel — Oh Wait, There Is No Bottom

Radioactive contamination in groundwater may be 400 times higher than the federal standard at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state because high-level nuclear waste was buried 40 years ago in containers that had no bottoms, the U.S. Energy Department said on Friday. The department’s groundwater manager said the contamination will likely reach the Columbia […]

Fit to Be Tide

Red tides are becoming a severe environmental problem along China’s coast, killing tons of fish and costing the country more than $100 million every year. Red tides, which can be caused or exacerbated by industrial and sewage waste, are massive and fast-spreading algae outbreaks that poison the water or deplete its oxygen supply, suffocating marine […]