Articles by Grist staff

Hong Kong Phooey

Hong Kong businesses are starting to worry that the city’s abysmal air quality and pollution problems will hinder their ability to attract talented new employees. Hong Kong’s smog problems are largely the result of diesel-powered vehicles in the city and factories in the nearby Chinese province of Guangdong. Ozone levels, an indicator of smog, have […]

Stick This in Your Pipeline

U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to help finance a gas pipeline through a rare forest ecosystem in Bolivia, in violation of Clinton administration policies, enviro groups say. U.S. energy giants Enron and Shell are working with the Bolivian consortium Transredes to build a 243-mile pipeline that will run through Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest, considered […]

More Pollution Than a Barrel of Monkeys

Trash from one household burned in a backyard barrel may release more dioxins, furans, and other chlorine-containing pollutants into the air than tons of trash burned by a municipal waste incinerator serving tens of thousands of homes, according to a new report by EPA scientists, being published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. An […]

Do Cry Over Spilt Oil

While large oil spills threaten sea birds off the coast of France and in a Turkish shipping channel this week, scientists are warning that even small oil spills may harm marine bird populations to a much greater degree than previously thought. “Marine birds are slow to reproduce, and they’re migratory. Even a small spill that […]