Articles by Grist staff

Oops, I'd Forgotten It Was World Ozone Day

Today, on World Ozone Day, the U.N. is warning that the growing illegal trade in CFCs could seriously hamper efforts to end the consumption and production of the ozone-depleting substance. CFC smugglers are expected to turn their attention to large developing nations like India and China, where there are millions of users of CFC-based equipment. […]

If You Build It, Floyd Will Come

While residents along the East Coast of the U.S. make emergency preparations and evacuate as Hurricane Floyd heads inland, coastal scientists and policy makers worry that rising sea levels and more intense storms are likely to cause an increasing number of disasters in coastal areas. Population growth is booming along U.S. coasts, in part because […]

Not the Same Old Gas

Climate scientists are abandoning their old estimates about greenhouse gas emissions, saying there are too many uncertainties to predict likely future levels. A new draft report on emissions by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which encompasses the views of hundreds of leading scientists and economists, does not present just one likely scenario, as […]

Pretty Boy on Floyd

Without urgent action to curb climate change, the world will be increasingly vulnerable to environmental crises and destructive storms like Hurricane Floyd, which is now headed for the East Coast of the U.S., Pres. Clinton said today in New Zealand during a speech on global warming. He warned that sea levels are likely to rise […]