Articles by Grist staff

Peru-stroika

Peru this week created a national park that will protect one of its last big tracts of undeveloped rainforest, an area that loggers had hoped to open up soon. The 5,225-square-mile park is larger than the state of Connecticut, and scientists from Peru and the U.S. said they had already identified at least 28 previously […]

The Hunger Strikes Back

Canada’s Health Minister Allan Rock last week said the country would take a closer look at hazardous-waste concerns in Sydney, Canada, 17 days after the executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada, Elizabeth May, went on a hunger strike to call attention to the problem. May, who ended her strike by taking a bite […]

Trees Don't Suck

After all that talk, it seems that forests might not do such a great job sucking carbon dioxide emissions out of the air, according to two studies published today in the journal Nature. During negotiations over a climate change treaty, the U.S. and Canada have made a big to-do about the potential for forests to […]

Greased Lightning

The first gas station in a major city to sell vegetable fuel for diesel cars and trucks opened yesterday in San Francisco. A similar station also opened in Sparks, Nev. The biodiesel fuel is made from recycled vegetable oil from restaurants or from soybean oil. The fuel doesn’t cut back on nitrogen oxide emissions, but […]