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Drinking Problems		28 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Drinking Problems As concerns grow about possible global water shortages, the United Nations Environment Programme has published a new report on the quantity, quality, and availability of worldwide water supplies. But unlike many scientific studies that are all-but-incomprehensible to the general public, this report uses simple visual images to convey its message. The graphs and photo ...
Topics: climate, health, pollution and waste, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Overheard at the North Pole ...	Suzy Becker	27 Jan 2003	Ha.

Topics: Arctic, climate, ozone (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Volunteer Spirit		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Volunteer Spirit In an all-out effort to demonstrate the viability of voluntary solutions to global climate change, officials from the Bush administration are touring the country, coaxing promises from industry leaders to cut greenhouse gas emissions. If self-regulation fails to attract enough takers, staving off mandatory emissions restriction ...
Topics: business, climate, commercial and industry organizations, environmental non-government organizations, politics (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Climate Every Mountain		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Climate Every Mountain Move over, NASDAQ. Watch out, NYSE. Here comes the Chicago Climate Exchange, the nation's first greenhouse-gas trading program. Announced yesterday by a coalition of corporations and government entities including DuPont, Ford Motor Company, Motorola, and the city of Chicago, the exchange will permit companies to reduce (on paper, at least) their em ...
Topics: business, Chicago, climate, commercial and industry organizations, Illinois, ozone (all these topics)

Polar Bear Market		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Polar Bear Market The polar bear -- that pinnacle of megafauna adulation -- could disappear from the planet this century as a result of global warming, according to a top scientist. The Arctic-dwelling animal, which is the world's largest land predator, is thought to be particularly susceptible to climate change because it relies on floating sea ice to catch seals and hitch lifts from feeding grounds back to denning area ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Do Tell		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Do Tell The General Accounting Office, the investigative branch of the U.S. Congress, will meet with regulators from the Security and Exchange Commission next week to discuss whether companies sufficiently disclose environmental risks to shareholders. The meeting was prompted by concerns from Sens. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) about corporate liability for envir ...
Topics: business, climate, Government Accountability Office (all these topics)

Giving Us Tropopause		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Giving Us Tropopause The tropopause has risen by an average of 650 feet globally in the last 22 years because of global warming and ozone depletion, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research. For those of you who've forgotten your junior high school science, the tropopause is the atmospheric layer above the troposphere (which swaddles the Earth) and below the stratosphere (where commercial jets ...
Topics: climate, ozone (all these topics)

The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain Rain. Drought. Hailstorms. Tornadoes. Frost. You'd be hard-pressed to name a weather phenomenon that hasn't afflicted the African kingdom of Lesotho in recent times, destroying its crops and leaving one-third of its 2.1 million people on the brink of starvation. Now, many scientists are saying that those people, along with nearly 40 million other Africans fac ...
Topics: Africa, climate, food and agriculture, population (all these topics)

Smokin', Joe		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Smokin', Joe Despite inevitable resistance from the Bush administration and fellow Congress members, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) plan to unveil a proposal this week that would force all U.S. industries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The legislation would require all industries to limit their emissions to 2000 levels by 2010 and 1990 levels by 2016. McCain has scheduled a ...
Topics: air pollution, business, climate, politics (all these topics)

The Best Defense On staying sane in a mad world	Elizabeth Sawin	12 Dec 2002	Global Citizen
A Czech friend of mine sent me an email during the recent NATO summit in Prague as American fighter jets stood by and riot police filled the streets. "Sometimes," she wrote, "I feel as though the world has gone mad." Her words spoke my own thoughts so clearly it was as though I were reading a message I'd sent to myself. Quiet riot police. Do you sense it too -- the recklessness of this moment? H ...
Topics: climate, energy, green living, toxics (all these topics)

Share the Magic		12 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Share the Magic If you have a little money squirreled away somewhere, maybe it's time to take out stock in ... an auto company. Thanks to a dedicated coalition of environmentalists who did just that, both General Motors and Ford Motors will be voting on global warming resolutions at their next shareholders meetings. Shareholder resolutions like the ones that will be considered by the car companies have been promoted by the Center for Envi ...
Topics: business, climate (all these topics)

Oh, Yeah, Canada		11 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Oh, Yeah, Canada Canada's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying the Kyoto Protocol yesterday, concluding months of rancorous debate and paving the way for a concerted international effort to curb emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases. A triumphant Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who staked a fair bit of political capital on Kyoto, will sign Canada's official ratification by the end of the year. Though ...
Topics: Canada, climate, politics (all these topics)

Green Unpleasant Land		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Green Unpleasant Land A record quantity of northern polar ice was lost this year, according to scientists who presented their findings at a conference of the American Geophysical Union held this weekend in San Francisco. Surface melt in Greenland, for example, was the highest in recorded history, and extended to previously unaffected altitudes. In total, there were about 265,000 square miles of melt on the Greenland ice ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, Greenland, ozone (all these topics)

Credit Where Credit Is Due		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Credit Where Credit Is Due The Kyoto Protocol on climate change has not yet gone into effect, but the first sale of greenhouse gas credits negotiated within the treaty's proposed framework is officially a done deal. Slovakia (of all places) has sold emissions credits equivalent to 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to a Japanese trading house, which declined to ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, Japan, politics, Slovakia, United States (all these topics)

Washed Up	Kaitlin Gregg	05 Dec 2002	Counter Culture
400 -- loads of laundry washed by a typical U.S. household in one year1 35 billion -- loads of laundry washed every year in the U.S.2 74 -- percentage of U.S. households with washers and dryers3 7 -- percentage of washing machines replaced by U.S. consumers each year3 81,000 -- annual electricity consumption, in gigawatt hours, of U.S. washers and dryers3 33 to 50 -- percentage reduction in energy use by high-efficiency washing machines compared to conventi ...
Topics: climate, green living, United States (all these topics)

Cell-ebrate		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Cell-ebrate In what could be the first significant step toward mass-marketing fuel-cell vehicles, Toyota and Honda put the world's first such cars on the road yesterday. The cars are being leased to the Japanese government and several public organizations in the U.S. -- at the whopping price of between $6,500 and $9,800 per month, meaning the dream of widesprea ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, Japan, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

Sound Off		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sound Off Some 92,000 acres of mud and sand at the bottom of the Pacific Northwest's Puget Sound is contaminated with dioxin, toxic metals, and PCBs (just for starters), all the result of industrial pollution. In turn, these nasties make their way into the sound's critters. Crabs are poisoned, while orca whales, salmon, and even some herring stocks are disappearing. The sound's be ...
Topics: climate, marine life, Northwest, oceans, pollution and waste, Washington (all these topics)

A Snowball's Chance		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Snowball's Chance Perhaps the clearest and most visible sign of climate change in America won't be around for much longer: The glaciers of Glacier National Park in Montana are melting and will be gone within 30 years, scientists say. Dan Fagre, the 49-year-old leader of the U.S. Geological Survey team studying the problem, says, "It's not just going to happen in my lifetime. It's going to happ ...
Topics: climate, Montana, national parks, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Detroit Rock City		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Detroit Rock City Detroit automakers sure aren't complaining about the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. They anticipate having a close ally in the incoming chair of the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is known for his criticism of clean air regulations and the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. He once referred ...
Topics: climate, commercial and industry organizations, energy, James Inhofe, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

Study Buddies		13 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Study Buddies Ignoring the overwhelming consensus among scientists worldwide, the Bush administration this week unveiled a proposal that would have the U.S. embark on another years-long study to assess whether humans are causing the globe to warm. Industry officials and other climate skeptics lauded the research plan. But many climate scientists said it would simply reopen issues that most experts consider resolved. Others said more resea ...
Topics: climate, politics (all these topics)

Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire		08 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire Horrendous wildfires in Indonesia five years ago accounted for a whopping 13 to 40 percent of the world's total carbon emissions that year, according to new research published by European and Indonesian scientists in the journal Nature. The fires were probably ignited by timber companies and farmers trying to clear the drought-parched land; ultimately, the fires swept through an area twice the ...
Topics: climate, Indonesia, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Polar Bear L'attitude Adjustment	Suzy Becker	04 Nov 2002	Ha.

Topics: climate, wildlife (all these topics)

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