Articles by Grist staff

Plan — Nein!

A federal judge in Idaho ruled last week that the U.S. Forest Service under President Clinton did not follow public-disclosure requirements before settling on a plan to ban road-building and logging on more than 58.5 millions acres of national forestland. But Judge Edward Lodge did not grant the request from the state of Idaho to […]

A Light Truck at the End of the Tunnel

After jeering at its competitors Ford and General Motors last year for promising to improve the fuel efficiency of their light trucks and SUVs by almost 25 percent over five years, DaimlerChrysler on Friday did an about-face and said it would manufacture light trucks that burn fuel at least as efficiently as those of its […]

Support Can Be Beautiful

European Union officials today said they had won China’s support of the Kyoto treaty on climate change. On Sunday, Chinese Environment Minster Xie Zhenhua joined environmental ministers from South Korea and Japan in a joint statement urging President Bush to reconsider his decision to have the U.S. withdraw from the treaty. China said the decision […]

Wolong, Farewell

The forests of China’s largest panda preserve are being destroyed four times faster than before the park was created in 1975, according to a study published last week in the journal Science. The human population living inside the 500,000-acre Wolong Nature Reserve grew 70 percent from 1975 to 1995. Residents of the park depend on […]