Articles by Grist staff

Rosy Parks

With political support and funding levels up, urban parks in the U.S. are in the midst of their biggest boom in the last 50 years. From Houston to San Francisco to Chicago, neighborhood park activists have become increasingly successful at getting city hall to focus on their concerns. Another big shift has been the amount […]

Thy Staff, They Comfort Me

A harsh internal report leaked to the press yesterday accuses the World Bank of violating its own environmental and human rights policies by agreeing to fund a controversial resettlement project in western China. The $40 million project, which the bank tentatively approved last year, seeks to move about 58,000 poor farmers to areas traditionally inhabited […]

Drills and Chills

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the federal government must pay Mobil Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp. $156 million to compensate the companies for money they lost after Congress limited oil drilling in North Carolina’s Outer Banks area. In 1981, the oil companies paid $156 million to the government for the right to explore […]

Monday, 12 Jun 2000 — Day 127

Jeff Barrie has been making independent environmental documentary productions as a freelance artist since 1994. His latest project, Arctic Quest, had him bicycling from coast to coast to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Monday, 26 Jun 2000 TURTON, S.D. The rain is falling […]