Articles by Grist staff

Money Doesn’t Grow on Tree Huggers

Dang, Grist readers, y’all had such an amazingly generous response to yesterday’s fundraising plea that we thought we’d better do it again. So here goes: For those of you who were away from your email accounts Tuesday, the skinny is that there are just three days left to dig deep into your hearts and wallets […]

Classless Dismissal

Seeking a comfortable position between environmentalists on the one hand and industry buddies on the other, President Bush let his administration release a report last week acknowledging for the first time that human-caused climate change would substantially change the U.S. environment — but then distanced himself from the report’s conclusions during a press conference yesterday. […]

Who’s the Unfairest of Them All

A major gas field development in the Arctic Circle’s Barents Sea has won official approval from the European Free Trade Area, much to the dismay of environmentalists. Norway’s state-owned energy group Statoil is running the $5.8 billion project, which will be the first commercial exploration of fossil fuel in the region and Europe’s first offshore […]

Diet Ops for Diet

Following in the footsteps of the European Union, Japan ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change today, becoming the 73rd country to commit to curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Japan had previously waffled on ratification, especially after the Bush administration backed out of the treaty, but public pressure won out and the country’s upper house of […]