Articles by Grist staff

Onus on Us

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked world leaders yesterday to pick up the pace on protecting the environment. “We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even this one,” said Annan, speaking at a conference in Bangladesh. He said that […]

The Fin-al Countdown

Environmentalists launched a yearlong campaign this week to persuade Singapore diners to stop eating shark’s fin soup, a popular delicacy in the country. To meet market demand, fishers slice fins off live sharks and then toss the helpless creatures back into the sea to die. As a result, shark populations are being devastated and traders […]

Undermined By the Under Mind

The European Union yesterday expressed disappointment with President Bush’s decision not to regulate carbon dioxide, and Japan said the decision could undermine the Kyoto treaty on climate change. Germany went so far as to say the rest of the world might have to leave the U.S. behind and begin implementing the treaty alone. E.U. Environment […]

Whoah, Corn Doggy

A vegetarian-foods subsidiary of Kellogg’s announced a recall in the U.S. on Tuesday of all its meatless corn dogs after tests confirmed that some of them contained a genetically engineered corn variety not approved for human consumption. Greenpeace first spotted that the corn variety, StarLink, was showing up in the dogs, and went public with […]