Articles by Grist staff

To Russia, With Love

As delegates from 150 nations gather in Bonn, Germany, this week to hammer out some details on the Kyoto climate change agreement, Russia is pushing for a system that would allow it to sell permits for carbon dioxide emissions. Under Kyoto, Russia is supposed to maintain its CO2 emissions at 1990 levels, but the post-Soviet […]

From Russia, Without Love

Russian police are targeting environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists in a security crackdown that gained momentum after a terrorist scare last month. Police have interrogated at least seven enviros in the past two months and searched some of their homes, and at least one of them is still in jail, activists say. The enviros, who are […]

More Green, Less House

U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, rose just 0.02 percent last year, the smallest annual increase since the recession year of 1991, according to the Department of Energy. At the same time, the U.S. economy grew by 3.9 percent. DOE economist Arthur Rypinski said it would take several years of similar data […]

Energy Boom

As Asia’s population expands and its burgeoning middle classes pursue more energy-intensive lifestyles, Northeast Asian nations are turning to nuclear energy to meet growing demand, building many nuclear power plants and planning hundreds more. Many of the region’s citizens are uncomfortable with this trend, especially after the accident last month at a nuclear fuel facility […]