Articles by Grist staff

The Lung Arm of the Law

To help cut air pollution in the nation’s smoggiest state, California officials announced last week that they will soon begin converting the state government’s entire 10,000-vehicle fleet to low-polluting or non-polluting vehicles. One quarter of the fleet will be made up of gasoline-powered cars that release up to 90 percent fewer pollutants than typical new […]

Got Water?

At least 3.5 billion people, more than half of the world’s current population, are expected to experience water shortages by 2025, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute. Freshwater systems around the world are being degraded by agricultural runoff, wetland loss, dams, diversions, and overuse, threatening their ability to support human, animal, […]

Chain Reaction

Enviros and human rights advocates chained themselves to the door of the Mexican attorney general’s office on Wednesday, calling for the release of two environmental activists who have been jailed on apparently trumped-up drug and weapons charges. Amnesty International, the Sierra Club, and other groups assert that Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera were arrested, tortured, […]

Getting Something Off Their Chests

A few environmental activists in California are trying a new tactic to bring a halt to the logging of ancient redwoods — “Goddess-based, nude Buddhist guerilla poetry,” or, in laywoman’s terms, females baring their breasts and reciting poetry to unsuspecting logging crews. “They stop their chainsaws and they stop their trucks and they pay attention,” […]