Articles by Grist staff

Trump L'oil

French citizens are calling for the government to crack down on oil tankers that travel through French waters, reacting to a devastating December 1999 spill that dumped 19,000 tons of oil off the nation’s Atlantic coast. The accident, which some are calling France’s own “Exxon Valdez,” could cost some $1 billion in cleanup expenses and […]

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 […]