Articles by Grist staff

Morocco, Mo' Talk

Close to 4,000 people from 163 countries converged on Marrakech, Morocco, today for the beginning of a two-week conference on the Kyoto treaty on climate change. The opening was characterized by unusually heavy security, because the conference is the largest international gathering to be held since Sept. 11 and the first in a Muslim country. […]

Less Than Ground Zero

Six weeks after the attacks that reduced the World Trade Center to a pile of rubble in lower Manhattan, dust and fires from Ground Zero are releasing toxic chemicals and metals into the air in quantities far greater than initially reported. Although U.S. and New York EPA officials have consistently downplayed the environmental hazards, government […]

Cut That Out

California’s largest timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, will shift its logging practices from selective thinning to clear-cutting on 70 percent of the 1.5 million acres it owns in the state. Company representatives say the clear-cutting will take place along ridgelines or roads, allowing firefighters better access to control wildfires. But environmentalists say clear-cutting actually increases […]

Malaise-ia

A proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas from the South China Sea through Thailand and into Malaysia is bringing only conflict to the region thus far. The Thai government sees possibilities for modernization, dependable energy, employment, and the economic unification of Southeast Asia in the pipeline, but many villagers see a threat to their […]