Articles by Grist staff

Playing De-fence

Ministers from South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe signed an agreement on Friday to take down fences and create one of the largest wildlife parks in the world, with one of the longest names. The Gaza-Kruger-Gonarezhou Transfrontier Park will link three existing preserves in the three countries and cover 13,500 square miles. The new park will […]

Give a Hoot, Let Us Pollute

Foreign and trade ministers from several developing countries, led by Malaysia, are pushing for the world’s industrialized nations to give up their requests that environmental and labor standards be made part of international trade negotiations under the World Trade Organization. At a meeting in Brunei of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the developing nations are […]

If They Could Just Harness All That Hot Air …

While government representatives in The Hague quibble over ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Germans are making some real progress in adopting clean energy. In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, home to 2.8 million people and numerous heavy industries, about 19 percent of the electricity is generated by wind, and in some areas of the […]

For the Crater Good

While George W. Bush and Al Gore continued to duke it out over the White House, President Clinton exercised his executive authority yesterday by creating a new national monument in northern Arizona and substantially expanding one in central Idaho. The Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona — 293,000 acres near the Colorado River north of […]