Articles by Grist staff

Delta Dawn, What's That Oil Spill You've Got on

The Niger River Delta — 42,000 square miles of wetland that is home to 7 million Nigerians — has been ravaged by five multinational oil companies extracting 2 million barrels of crude oil per day from the area. From 1986 to 1996, oil spills equal to 10 Exxon Valdez disasters fouled rivers and jungles in […]

Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day

Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Monday, 19 Mar 2001 PARIS, France On 19 Apr., Earth Car Free Day 2001 is going to take another whack at the catastrophic problems behind global warming. And this time, it is quite possible […]

Kenya Believe This?

A court in Kenya granted environmentalists an injunction yesterday to prevent the government from clearing 167,000 acres of forestland around Mount Kenya. The decision will allow time for the enviros to file a formal case against the minister of environment. Yesterday, the enviros presented a petition to the minister signed by more than 28,000 people […]

A Left Bank

France’s Green Party is expected to play a major role in what political analysts say will be a victory for the Socialist candidate in the race for mayor of Paris this Sunday. Taking lessons from the German Green Party, the French Greens in recent years have dropped their former hippie image to curry favor with […]