Articles by Grist staff

Baby, You Can't Drive My Car

Hundreds of miles of roads in British town and city centers are being put off-limits to cars as local authorities make radical changes to transportation policies. Measures are also being put in place to make life more difficult and expensive for drivers in hopes that they will abandon their cars and get around by walking, […]

Spore Judgment

Hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria — enough to destroy the world many times over — was buried in an unsafe fashion on a remote island in the inland Aral Sea toward the end of the Cold War, reports the New York Times in a front-page expose. Soviet officials hastily shipped it to the area, […]

WWF Body Slams Olympics

The Austrian, Italian, and Swiss arms of the World Wildlife Fund yesterday urged the International Olympic Committee to delay for a year its choice of venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics so environmental issues can be more carefully considered. WWF says that instead of choosing a host city, the IOC should choose a host region […]

If It's Not One Blowup, It's Another

After spending 16 years and $489 million on part a plan to safely store millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production, the Energy Department has abandoned its efforts, according to a report released yesterday. Researchers had discovered in the early 1980s that the procedure being developed to concentrate the waste produced […]