Articles by Grist staff

Everybody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

In anticipation of U.S. President Bush’s visit to Madrid tomorrow, thousands of Spaniards marched through the city yesterday to protest Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on climate change and numerous other White House policies. Greenpeace activists boarded an oil tanker off the coast of France yesterday and hung a huge banner on […]

Deutsch Treat

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and representatives from leading utilities are expected to sign an agreement today to phase out nuclear power within 25 years. The government has taken steps to ensure that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions decline, even as nuclear power is taken away from the electricity grid. It wants renewable energy to account […]

Soy Triste

Despite consumer concerns about genetically engineered food, especially in Europe and Japan, the biotech industry believes it has nearly won the battle to make the foods ubiquitous. The U.S., Brazil, and Argentina account for about 90 percent of the world’s corn and soybean exports, and the U.S. and Argentina now ship mostly genetically engineered varieties. […]

Pink Flawed

Scores of flamingos have been found dead in western Kenya, reviving concerns that pollution is killing off the birds. The numbers of dead birds aren’t as high as in some past years — 40,000 flamingos died over three months in 1993 and 20,000 died in 1995 — but researchers say many of the remaining birds […]