Articles by Grist staff

Cutting Through the Crop

The Clinton-Gore administration today is unveiling a proposal to tighten the regulation of genetically modified (GM) foods, but the plan falls far short of what consumer and enviro groups say is needed to protect public health and the environment. The proposal would require, among other things, that biotech companies notify the Food and Drug Administration […]

A Site for Sore Eyes

GreaterGood.com, an online shopping portal dedicated to charitable giving, yesterday launched the Rainforest Site, a website that lets people protect 19.2 square feet of rainforest with a single click of the mouse, as often as once a day. A group of rotating site sponsors pay for donations to a Nature Conservancy program that purchases and […]

P-Sea-B

Some 110 tons of PCB-contaminated waste that were forced out of Seattle’s port last month may now be headed for Johnston Island, a wildlife refuge and U.S. territory 700 miles southwest of Honolulu. The waste, generated at U.S. military bases in Japan, was to be temporarily stored in Seattle, but enviros, dock workers, and Washington […]

One Is the Loneliest Number

Almost 20 years after China began trying to limit its population growth with a strict one-child policy, the effort seems to have been undermined in many regions by corruption, uneven enforcement, the erosion of central control over local governments, and the simple unwillingness of many Chinese people to comply. The one-child policy is still firmly […]