Articles by Grist staff

… Some Say in Ice

U.S. scientists have found evidence that the Arctic has rapidly warmed over the past 40 years, a trend in keeping with predictions from climate change models. Snow cover in the Arctic has dropped by about 10 percent since 1972 and sea ice has also been in decline, dropping to record lows in the western Arctic […]

A Great Bear Rainforest By Any Other Name

The Great Bear Rainforest, the region of British Columbia between the northern end of Vancouver Island and the Alaska Panhandle, doesn’t actually exist on the map. International environmental groups came up with the name in the mid-1990s as they campaigned for a boycott on old-growth lumber products from the region, and the name struck a […]

Stock Tip: Buy Kleenex

The rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels that are leading to global warming may also worsen hay fever, according to a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be published in the journal World Resource Review. Researchers say higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere seem to be causing ragweed to produce twice as much […]

Red Hot Chile Cyclists

On the first Tuesday of every month, hundreds of “Ciclistas Furiosos,” or enraged bicyclists, take to the streets of Santiago, Chile. Riding as slowly as possible, waving flags, and blowing whistles, they tangle up traffic to protest the city’s dirty air, caused in large part by cars. The group, which began seven years ago and […]