Articles by Grist staff

Deep-Sea Doo-Doo

Fishing trawlers are causing serious damage to fragile deep-sea coral reefs, which scientists have only begun to study in earnest in the last 10 years. As fisheries in shallower waters are depleted, the massive trawlers drag their large nets along the seafloor in deeper areas, trapping fish and clearing everything in their paths. Surveys off […]

Sick and Tired

Recycling advocates hope the high-profile recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires will make people more aware of tire disposal issues and give a boost to recycling efforts. In 1999, 66 percent of the 273 million scrap tires in the U.S. were recycled, up from only 11 percent in 1990. They are used to help make […]

Bob Massie, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

Bob Massie is executive director of the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES). Monday, 18 Sep 2000 OVER THE ATLANTIC It is Monday morning and I am currently sitting on an airplane zooming eastward seven miles above the Atlantic Ocean. Over the next two weeks I will be attending meetings in Paris, London, Delhi, and […]

Sheik, Your Booty

OPEC nations argued on Friday that a final international accord on climate change should include a plan to compensate them in case efforts to cut greenhouse gases lead to a drop in the use of oil. “We are assuming that only for another 15 years, maximum, will we have oil as a big share of […]