Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Saline Solution?

Facing a severe shortage of fresh water, the sprawling Tampa Bay area is planning to build the largest desalination plant this side of Saudi Arabia by the end of 2002. If the plan is approved by state environmental officials, Tampa Bay envisions desalted sea water providing about 10 percent of the drinking water for the […]