Articles by Grist staff

Laissez-fair?

U.S. enviros said yesterday that a Clinton administration plan for making international trade negotiations more eco-friendly is a good first step but doesn’t go nearly far enough. Under rules proposed by the White House last month, U.S. trade negotiators would be required to review how draft trade agreements would affect the environment and to solicit […]

Johnny Bad-Seed

Even as the controversy around genetically modified (GM) crops escalates, few people are aware that a biotech revolution in forestry is also underway, with GM trees being developed and tested around the globe. Some have been engineered to grow cherries in unusual colors or apples that don’t turn brown even hours after being sliced. Others […]

Graham Slam

Environmentalists yesterday called on Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.), a potential Democratic vice presidential candidate, to come out against a proposed commercial airport in south Florida, saying the expansion of the former Homestead air force base would bring development and pollution that would devastate the nearby Everglades and Biscayne national parks. The Sierra Club and Friends […]

Wishful Sinking

With international negotiations on the Kyoto climate change treaty set to continue this fall, the U.S. is proposing that countries get the same amount of credit for using forests and farmland to absorb carbon dioxide as they would for reducing CO2 emissions from power plants and cars. The State Department says the carbon-sink effect in […]