Articles by Grist staff

They Wouldn't Touch Pollution With a 10-foot Poll

Sixty-four percent of Californians don’t want environmental protections rolled back as part of a solution to the current energy crisis, according to a Los Angeles Times poll. Almost 90 percent of respondents said they had taken steps in the last six months to reduce their own energy consumption. Sixty percent said they would oppose more […]

Marine Core

As much as one-fifth of the world’s oceans should be put off-limits to fishing to save large numbers of fish and other aquatic species from going extinct, according to a consensus statement released by 150 of the world’s leading marine scientists. Scientists have spent more than two years studying whether large marine reserves allow fish […]

The Oh-Nos of Kilimanjaro

The ice cap on Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone in 15 years, says Lonnie G. Thompson, a researcher at Ohio State University. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this weekend, Thompson said that 82 percent of the ice cap that existed on the mountain in 1912 […]

Brenda Morehouse, Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

Brenda Morehouse is manager of the Pembina Institute’s new environmental activism website, EcoAction.ca, and senior editor for ClimateChangeSolutions.com. Sunday, 18 Feb 2001 OTTAWA, Ontario Me and Lou, at work. This is an exciting time for EcoAction.ca! Tomorrow, we launch our Green Power Action campaign in support of renewable energy. I’m at the office on a […]