Articles by Grist staff

I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Rain

Amazonian Fires May Screw Up Entire South American Climate Massive fires in Amazonian forests, set by impoverished local residents trying to create revenue-generating pastures and cropland, have the potential to disrupt the climate and generate fierce storms across South America, says research published in today’s issue of the journal Science. The fires send particles into […]

Shareholding Industry Responsible

Shareholders Call on Companies to Address Global Warming A group of pension-fund managers representing public employees announced yesterday that they had filed shareholder resolutions with 10 North American oil and gas companies, calling on them to report to investors how they plan to deal with the problem of global warming and, more to the point, […]

Look for the GM Label

Battle Over Genetically Modified Foods Rages On It’s been an action-packed couple of weeks in the ongoing global dispute over genetically engineered foods. Just today, a conference of 80 nations agreed on a strict set of labeling rules for international commodity shipments of GM foods — rules which will form the basis of the biodiversity-protecting […]

Soothe the Salvage Beast

Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging Salvage logging — harvesting burnt trees from the site of a fire — is not, contrary to public perception and federal practice, an environmentally benign method of gathering timber, write a group of forest ecologists in an article in the journal Science. Dead wood, they say, plays an important ecological […]