Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

One Big Happy Nuclear Family

The U.S. nuclear power industry said yesterday that it produced more power in the year 2000 than ever before. The announcement came just one week after Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) introduced a bill to spur more use of nuclear energy in the U.S., celebrating what he termed a “safe and environmentally clean fuel.” In other […]