Articles by Grist staff

No Mobile Is Good Mobile

In a move praised by enviros, the National Park Service said on Monday that it is leaning toward banning snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. The NPS has been considering a number of winter-use plans for Yellowstone, but the EPA recently told the agency that the only acceptable plan is the one that […]

Made in Taiwan, Dumped in China?

Even as political tensions between China and Taiwan have mounted this year, the two have been secretly negotiating a surprising multibillion dollar deal in which more than 200,000 drums of radioactive waste from Taiwan’s nuclear power plants would be disposed of in mainland China in return for money and aid to the mainland’s nuclear power […]

La Resistance

Europeans are becoming increasingly passionate in their resistance to genetically modified (GM) foods, staging colorful protests and destroying test fields of plants in addition to refusing to buy the foods. Pollsters say that only 1 percent of Britons think there is any value to genetically modifying plants, and British supermarket chains have been among the […]

Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent

The winter of 1999-2000 was the warmest winter in the U.S. since the government began keeping records 105 years ago, marking the third year in a row of record warm winters, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From December 1999 through February 2000, every state in the contiguous U.S. was warmer than its long-term […]