Articles by Grist staff

Tanker spills over 500,000 gallons of fuel oil in Black Sea

On Sunday, a storm in the Black Sea sank five ships and ran others aground, including an oil tanker that split in half, spilling about 550,000 gallons of fuel oil — roughly half its cargo. Two other ships carrying fuel oil were among those that hit shore, but they apparently didn’t spill anything. At least […]

IPCC to hammer out summary of climate science for policymakers

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is meeting this week in Valencia, Spain, to distill the panel’s three massive scientific climate-change reports released earlier this year into a concise 25-page summary for the world’s governments. Expect environmentalists and others concerned about climate-change’s effects to lobby for strong language clearly spelling out the expected perils of […]

From Batman to Bra

Holy overused headline, Batman! Riddle us this, riddle us that, who’s afraid of dirty water in the land of Chow Yun-Fat? Nananananananana … Batman! Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures Corn stars The King Corn documentarians have decided to live corn free (as free as the wind blows …) for 30 days, cobbling together a diet sans […]

Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green

Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon’s efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who […]