Articles by Grist staff

Tunnel Vision

China is drawing up plans to use nuclear explosions, in violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, to blast a 10-mile tunnel through the Himalayas in order to build the world’s largest hydroelectric plant. Work on the project, which is expected to produce more than twice as much power as the controversial Three Gorges Dam […]

And other words from readers

Your letters on Ralph Nader keep coming and coming. Here are a few of the latest missives. (And if you just can’t read enough on this juicy topic, check out our first, second, and third batches of Nader letters.)   Dear Editor: There’s a point that appears to have been missed in the Nader/Gore/Bush “wasted […]

Brussels Sprouts

The prime minister of Belgium set a goal yesterday of increasing the number of organic farms in his country by 60 percent a year for the next four years, with the aim of having at least 4 percent of the country’s agricultural land farmed organically. The target is part of a comprehensive sustainable development plan […]

All in the Family

In a move that could boost efforts to limit population growth, Republicans in Congress agreed yesterday to lift a restriction that now bars international family planning groups that receive some U.S. funding from spending any of their own money to promote abortion rights or provide legal abortion services. Family-planning advocates have long argued that the […]