Articles by Grist staff

Painting the Town Red-Green

Red-green political party makes headway in Montreal city elections Not everything going on in Montreal is as depressing as the climate summit. In recent citywide elections, Projet Montreal — a municipal political party devoted to dense urban development, public transit, and social justice — picked up two city-council seats and took a big step toward […]

The Summit of Our Discontent

U.S. continues to stomp mightily on Montreal climate summit Poor Canada got it from both sides this week at the Montreal climate summit. On Tuesday, it suggested that the 189 nations party to the original 1992 U.N. climate convention meet formally over the next two years to discuss post-Kyoto strategies for greenhouse-gas reduction. The Bush […]

Fry Me a River

China’s benzene spill flows toward Siberian tiger territory in Russia China’s latest claim to international infamy — a Songhua River-borne, 100-ton, 90-odd-mile-long benzene spill — is expected to reach the Russian city of Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, next week. Conservationists in the region worry that the toxic slick will further imperil the extremely endangered […]

Ah-Ha California

California pushing ahead with ambitious plan to fight global warming Earlier this year, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) broke with the Bush administration’s do-nothing stance on global warming when he pledged that by 2050, his state would shrink its greenhouse-gas emissions to 80 percent of 1990 levels. On Thursday, the state’s Climate Action Team will […]