Articles by Grist staff

A Mess In-a Messina

Italy has declared states of environmental emergency in Venice, Milan, and Messina. Venice is beset with water pollution caused by boat traffic in its canals, while road traffic in the other two cities is producing too much air pollution. The country’s parliament may now appoint local commissioners to impose tough new anti-pollution measures, such as […]

Back in Black

Thirty-one black-footed ferrets were released into the wild in Colorado yesterday, 58 years after the animal was last sighted in the state. The release near Rangley, Colo., was the ninth on the continent since the U.S. began a captive-breeding program to save the species 14 years ago; the animals have also been set loose in […]

Soothing the Savage Breasts

We’ve been derelict in our duties: Only now are we telling you that the largest known environmental striptease in the history of the world took place last Friday. Nine bare-breasted women briefly halted logging near Northern California’s Headwaters Forest, at a stand of second-growth redwood trees that didn’t make it into the 1999 forest protection […]

Round, Round, Get Around, I Get a Round

The latest round of World Trade Organization negotiations concluded yesterday with delegates from 142 nations agreeing to an agenda for the next round of trade talks and glossing over environmental disagreements for the moment. The agenda, which includes cutting tariffs on industrial goods, phasing out farm subsidies, reducing foreign investment barriers, and limiting anti-dumping laws, […]