Articles by Grist staff

Oh, Blast!

Underwater noise or explosions caused healthy beaked whales to beach themselves in the Bahamas in March just as the Navy was conducting underwater tests in the area, according to a report released yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report does not say outright that the Navy sonar tests or explosions caused the […]

The Powers That Won't Be

The German government and energy companies today reached an agreement to shut down the nation’s 19 nuclear power plants by about 2020. The deal, which comes after more than 18 months of contentious negotiations, fulfills a pledge made by the governing coalition of the Social Democratic and Green parties to phase out nuclear energy. Still, […]

Micheal Phillips, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Michael Phillips is a scuba technician and archaeological diver for Tidewater Atlantic Research in Washington, N.C. He is the operations and communications specialist at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Thursday, 15 Jun 2000 […]

Crime Me a River

It will soon be a crime to harm salmon or steelhead in some urban areas in the Northwest. The National Marine Fisheries Service is planning to announce rules to that effect next week, a follow-up to last year’s listing of fish runs in Washington’s Puget Sound and Oregon’s Willamette River under the Endangered Species Act. […]