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Control Your Emissions

British population think tank shames large families Got your 10-foot pole handy? You’ll need it for this story: U.K. think tank Optimum Population Trust published a report yesterday declaring that having a large family is akin to such eco-crimes as leaving lights on, driving an SUV, and tossing plastic bags in the trash. Forget carbon […]

IPCC says world can afford to fix climate, and more

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I Believe the Children Are Our Lab Rats

Pesticides could make kids dumb, diesel emissions make them sick You know how we say we shouldn’t wreck the planet for “future generations”? Turns out we’re wrecking them too! A study from Indiana University says children conceived in the summer score lower on tests in school, and suggests that in-womb pesticide exposure may be to […]

Roller Curby

High seas of South Pacific protected from bottom trawling A landmark agreement between 21 countries will restrict the controversial practice of bottom-trawling in the high seas of the South Pacific. The deal, which takes effect in September, affects a quarter of the world’s oceans, and is the first step toward implementing a U.N. resolution on […]

Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine, activists for indigenous health in Suriname, answer questions

Dan Peplow and Sarah Augustine. Q. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? A. We are co-directors of the Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. Q. What does your organization do? A. Our organization supplies technology and support to indigenous communities that are impacted by gold mining. The communities we work with live in the rainforest deep […]

You Know the Drill

Bush administration wants to drill here, there, and everywhere This week, the Interior Department announced a five-year plan that would open 48 million acres of ocean to oil and gas leases off the shores of Alaska and Virginia and in the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska’s Bristol Bay is ready to be defiled, as President Bush […]

Where There’s a Way, There’s a Will

Third IPCC report says world can afford climate solutions The third installment of the IPCC climate assessment is out, and the news is bad-good: it’s going to take a lot of work to combat climate change, but it won’t cost as much as many leaders have been claiming. The 120-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

Ways of Bee-ing

Are organic bees faring better than their industrial counterparts? As news emerges about the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world, one reader wonders: are organic bees doing any better than their industrially farmed peers? To find out, Tom Philpott combs through the complexities of organic honey production, explains why the two situations mite be […]

Haste Makes Waste

Savor your flavors with the slow-food movement You could say Carlo Petrini is a prophet of sorts. More than 20 years ago, the Italian gastronome and conservationist observed the decline in food varieties and flavors. Worried that the world would succumb to McDonald’s-ization, he created the Slow Food concept, which protects and publicizes local delicacies […]

This week

Yeargh! This week sucks. We’re having a whole series of planning/strategy meetings at Grist, which have eaten all my blogging time. There’s a conference on ethics and climate change starting tomorrow at UW that I intended to go to but now probably can’t. The WGIII IPCC report comes out on Friday, and I was supposed […]