Articles by Grist staff

Nuke Cleanup Bombs

Cleanup efforts at nuclear weapons production sites around the U.S. are proceeding too slowly, largely because Congress has been too stingy with funding and because management of cleanup efforts has been poor, according to a new report given to Energy Secretary Bill Richardson by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The Savannah River nuclear site […]

Burning Emberas

Some 170 Embera-Katio Indians from a northeastern Colombia rainforest have been camped out since Dec. 17 on the grounds of the Colombian Environment Ministry in Bogota, protesting a massive hydroelectric project that is destroying their homes and way of life. About 2,400 Emberas live in stilted huts along the banks of the Sinu River and […]

Hot and Steamy

Geothermal power will get a boost today when U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announces a goal of generating as much as 10 percent of the West’s electricity from geothermal sources by 2020. Richardson will announce $4.8 million in grants to advance research in geothermal energy, a renewable source that taps heat energy from under the […]

Talk About a Flood of Refugees

Bangladeshi Environment Minister Sajeeda Choudhury warned this weekend that if sea levels rise in line with climate change predictions, approximately 20 million Bangladeshis would become environmental refugees and industrialized nations would have an obligation to find room for them. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that up to 17.5 percent of Bangladesh’s landmass […]