Articles by Grist staff

The Naked Truth

Nude protestors crashed the opening session of an international water conference underway today at the Hague, Netherlands. The inaugural speaker, Egyptian water resources minister Mahmoud Abu Zeid, looked on in stunned silence as a man and woman climbed up on stage in front of him, disrobed, and revealed to the audience their backs and buttocks, […]

Green and Bear It

Six major timber companies in British Columbia are working toward an agreement with enviro groups under which the companies would stay out of certain pristine tracts in the Great Bear Rainforest for the next 18 months if the enviros stopped urging customers to boycott the companies’ products. The two sides, which have long been locked […]

Well, It's New Jersey — What Did You Expect?

Despite Gov. Christine Todd Whitman’s (R) campaign to make New Jersey a national model for controlling growth and protecting open space, sprawl is still spreading out of control in the state. New Jersey’s failures demonstrate anew how money and the threat of job losses can undermine public land preservation policy. Merrill Lynch recently pushed through […]

Bite Me

Despite mounting controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods, many U.S. farmers plan to plant GM crops again this year because they are easier and cheaper to grow and there’s still a big market for them in the U.S. The major biotechnology companies, including Monsanto and Novartis, have held forums around the country this winter to […]