Articles by Grist staff

Going Against the Grain

A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of farmers contends that the maker of the StarLink biotech corn variety was negligent in bringing the corn to market. StarLink was not approved for human consumption, but has been found to have made its way into the food stream, leading to a nationwide recall of millions of taco […]

The Protocol of the Elders of Ozone

The ozone hole will likely close within 50 years, according to scientists who just ended a major conference on the issue in Buenos Aires. They said that the international ban on ozone-depleting chlorofluorcarbons, which resulted from the 1987 Montreal Protocol, is beginning to have an effect, but that the ozone recovery is not likely to […]

Bye, Bye Birdwatchers

For perhaps the first time, an environmental group, the Nature Conservancy, has landed among the top 10 of U.S charities ranked by income. The conservancy sat at No. 9 on a listing by the NonProfit Times, with a total income in 1999 of $704 million. The group claims it devoted more than 93 percent of […]

The Fisher Is King

Fearful that a lawsuit filed by enviros might lead to a court-ordered logging injunction in the Sierra Nevada in California, the U.S. Forest Service next week will initiate its own three-month logging ban on 11 million acres in the region. Three enviro groups, including the Earth Island Institute, sued the Forest Service in October for […]