Articles by Grist staff

Norton's No Honeymooner

A list of the Interior Department advisory group assembled by President-elect Bush reads like a who’s who of representatives from the logging, mining, and oil drilling industries. Which isn’t surprising, given the background of Bush’s nominee to head the department, Gale Norton. Norton in 1998 founded what is now called the Council of Republicans for […]

Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar

Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Monday, 8 Jan 2001 STELLENBOSCH, South Africa Timm, the leader of the project I am working on, buzzes up to my apartment at 6:30 this morning. I come down with all my stuff for the week, which is not all […]

That Can-do Spirit

Industry experts say Brazil will recycle about 80 percent of the 9.5 billion aluminum cans sold in the country in 2000, putting it on pace to match Japan’s trend-setting rate of 79 percent in 1999. By comparison, the U.S. recycled 63 percent of its cans in 1999 and Europe as a whole recycled 41 percent. […]

Kicking a Two-pack-a-day Habit

The air in Mexico City — described by the U.N. in 1992 as the world’s worst — seems to be getting cleaner. Even as the number of cars and people picks up in the city, tougher environmental rules calling for cleaner fuels, catalytic converters on cars, emissions tests, and limits on industrial pollution have caused […]