Articles by Grist staff

The Turin of the Screw

Italy Winter Olympics to be carbon-neutral, but enviros aren’t mollified All right, who’s ready for a “winning the green medal” joke? Us too! Organizers say the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, will have no net impact on global climate disruption, thanks to energy efficiency, clean-energy tech, and tree planting to offset carbon dioxide […]

A Slow-Down Dirty Shame

World’s forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world’s forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That’s the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just […]

Flare and Balanced

Nigerian judge orders end to Shell’s gas flaring In a surprising victory for activists, a judge in Nigeria has ruled that the practice of gas flaring, wherein oil companies burn off the natural gas produced in oil drilling, violates the human rights of surrounding residents and must be halted immediately. Nigerian activists say the flaring […]

Fo Shizzle, My Grizzle

Yellowstone grizzlies no longer threatened, Bush administration argues Hey, Boo-Boo, Yellowstone’s grizzlies may be removed from the endangered species list if the Interior Department has its way. In a proposal unveiled today, the Bush administration notes that bear numbers in the park have tripled to more than 600 over the past 30-odd years of listing, […]