Articles by Grist staff

The Roadless Ahead

Vice Pres. Al Gore’s email box has been bombarded in the last two months with 170,000 messages from constituents asking him to “permanently protect all roadless areas in the national forest larger than 1,000 acres.” The emails were spurred by the Heritage Forests Campaign, which paid the free email provider Juno Online Services to send […]

Y2 OK?

One third of U.S. nuclear power plants still have work to do on their non-safety computer systems if they are to be ready for Y2K, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday. But computers controlling safety systems at all 103 nuclear plants are free of problems that could cause radiation leaks, the NRC claims. However, Rep. […]

A Sandy Dunkin'

Many U.S. beaches are washing away, being pushed into decline by erosion, coastal overdevelopment, and wrongheaded conservation efforts. Billions of dollars have been spent in the U.S. to keep beaches in place, but efforts in many cases have only exacerbated erosion. Ecologists say that for beaches to survive, they must be free to move and […]

Outtasight Insight in Sight

Honda will be hawking its new 80-mile-per-gallon “Insight” in showrooms across the U.S. by the end of this year, the company announced yesterday. The two-seat coupe will be the world’s most fuel-efficient, gas-powered, mass-produced vehicle. The Insight, which will be priced below $20,000 in the U.S., has a three-cylinder gasoline engine assisted by an electric […]