Articles by Grist staff

Kick Some Asthma

Smog in the eastern half of the U.S. sends some 53,000 people to the hospital and 159,000 to the emergency room each summer, and it triggers more than 6 million asthma attacks, according to a new study released by three environmental groups. The Clean Air Task Force, National Environmental Trust, and U.S. Public Interest Research […]

Couch Potatoes Getting Baked

Three environmental groups today are launching an $11 million-dollar “public education” campaign in the U.S. about the health dangers and physical costs of climate change, with the aim of putting the environment on voters’ minds before the 2000 elections and putting the heat on Congress for its lack of action on the issue. The groups […]

Mess Transit

Many top enviro groups made a last-minute appeal to Pres. Clinton yesterday to veto a transportation spending bill with a provision that would prevent the federal government from even studying the possibility of raising fuel-efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks. But White House officials said they expect Clinton to sign the bill. Enviros […]

A Cigar Is a Cigar, But a Rainforest Is a Smoke

Smoke from the burning of forests decreases rainfall, according to new research to be published this month in Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists studied the area of Kalimantan, Indonesia, last year when the southeastern portion of the island was engulfed in smoke and the northwestern portion was relatively smoke-free, and found that precipitation was much lower […]