Articles by Grist staff

A Site for Sore Eyes

GreaterGood.com, an online shopping portal dedicated to charitable giving, yesterday launched the Rainforest Site, a website that lets people protect 19.2 square feet of rainforest with a single click of the mouse, as often as once a day. A group of rotating site sponsors pay for donations to a Nature Conservancy program that purchases and […]

P-Sea-B

Some 110 tons of PCB-contaminated waste that were forced out of Seattle’s port last month may now be headed for Johnston Island, a wildlife refuge and U.S. territory 700 miles southwest of Honolulu. The waste, generated at U.S. military bases in Japan, was to be temporarily stored in Seattle, but enviros, dock workers, and Washington […]

One Is the Loneliest Number

Almost 20 years after China began trying to limit its population growth with a strict one-child policy, the effort seems to have been undermined in many regions by corruption, uneven enforcement, the erosion of central control over local governments, and the simple unwillingness of many Chinese people to comply. The one-child policy is still firmly […]

Droughting Thomases

The planet is now hotter than at any time in recorded human history, according to research conducted at Texas A&M University and published in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science’s magazine Ambio. Scientists Thomas Crowley and Thomas Lowery examined 15 different records of past climates from around the world, including ice cores from Tibet, tree […]