Articles by Grist staff

Data Dump

State officials in the Pacific Northwest are searching for ways to reduce the amount of high-tech waste ending up in landfills. The waste in Oregon has more than doubled since 1998, and it can be nasty stuff — computer monitors and televisions contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The officials are considering a […]

Bonn Jour

Negotiators from 178 countries reached agreement today on how to tackle climate change, fleshing out the Kyoto treaty and leaving the U.S. isolated from the rest of the world. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union’s environmental commissioner, said, “The rescue operation succeeded.” In the final pact reached in Bonn, the E.U. held firm against efforts to […]

John Perrine, fox researcher

John Perrine is a fifth-year graduate student in wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a researcher at the Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. Monday, 23 Jul 2001 MINERAL, Calif. For many people, a mention of California evokes images of […]

Zed, last of his species, in "Washing Down the Washed-up Blues"