Articles by Grist staff

Everybody Cut Footloose

Enviros are asking drivers in 700 European cities to take part in a car-free day this Friday, hoping to spread awareness of the pollution and congestion problems caused by cars. Protests against high gasoline prices have spread throughout Europe in recent days, and enviros hope the hoopla will encourage citizens to consider alternative ways of […]

Cruisin' for a Bruisin'

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) blasted the cruise ship industry yesterday for polluting state waters and demanded that state and federal governments tighten “woefully inadequate” cruise ship regulations. Preliminary tests of sewage and wastewater that were dumped by 12 ships in Alaska waters this summer found all the ships to be in violation of federal […]

Help Me, I'm Melting

In another sign that global warming is likely upon us, a study of ice cores from deep inside a glacier suggests that the last century has been the warmest in 1,000 years in the high Himalayan mountains, with the last decade found to be the hottest period of all. The study, published today in the […]

Try Not to Breathe

Calling for the creation of an international database on air pollution and its health effects, the World Health Organization said this week that the people most at risk from air pollution don’t live in the industrial world but in developing countries. As many as 1 billion people around the world are exposed regularly to pollution […]