Articles by Grist staff

Heckle and Jackal

President Bush encountered widespread protests yesterday when he received an honorary degree and spoke at the commencement of his alma mater, Yale University. Graduating students heckled Bush, held up signs that read “Conservation, Not Consumption” and “Don’t Turn Your Back on the Environment,” and handed out “Got Arsenic?” stickers. Some students from the Yale School […]

Quiet Riot

Citing concerns about unruly anti-globalization protests, the World Bank yesterday canceled a three-day conference that was to take place next month in Barcelona, Spain. The conference would have gathered academics together to talk about ways to ensure that the poor benefit from lower trade barriers and other aspects of globalization. The city was planning to […]

There's a Vas Deferens Between Us

A small but growing number of environmentalists in the U.S. have decided to get vasectomies to ensure they don’t have children and contribute to the population problem. Jeff Miller, a 38-year-old activist in Berkeley, Calif., who got a vasectomy when he was 26, said, “It’s one small thing that I can do. There are too […]

Not So Great, Apes

Some great apes could be extinct within the decade if nothing is done to stop the destruction of their habitat and their slaughter for meat, the U.N. Environment Programme said yesterday in launching a campaign to save the animals. UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer said the Great Apes Survival Project needed at least $1 million […]