Articles by Grist staff

Not Russian to Judgment

Russia Still Undecided on Kyoto Protocol Russia still has not decided whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, President Vladimir Putin said today. The nation has the power to make or break the climate-change treaty, which cannot go into effect until it is ratified by nations accounting for 55 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. The treaty […]

Say It Ain’t Soy

Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government had previously promised to oppose […]

Watching Their Waste

California Passes Cutting-Edge E-Waste Law Consistent with its habit of pushing the environmental envelope, California has adopted the nation’s most comprehensive law governing the manufacture and disposal of electronics. The law has three main purposes: to speed the recycling of discarded computers and televisions (some 6 million of which await disposal across the state); to […]

Enemy Mine I

Landmines Hamper Progress of International Park in Africa If you thought trying to get snowmobiles out of national parks was hard, try landmines. Zimbabwe’s portion of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, an international wilderness that stretches into South Africa and Mozambique, is littered with landmines from the nation’s liberation wars in the 1970s. Getting rid […]