Articles by Grist staff

But It Gives Strip-Mall Developers a Nice Head Start

Africa lost more than 9 million acres of forest each year between 1990 and 1995, primarily because of logging, overgrazing, conversion of land for agriculture, and civil unrest, according to a new study by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Africa had an annual deforestation rate of 0.7 percent between 1990 and 1995, more than […]

Get Wind of This

Wind power is beginning to gain ground in Japan, and the public is paying more attention to clean energy in the wake of a series of nuclear accidents that have left many Japanese mistrustful of nuclear power. In October, Tomen Corp. opened Japan’s largest wind-power farm, and next month Tokyo Electric Power Co., the nation’s […]

Or We Could Just Put Them All Up at the Hilton

More than a third of the planet’s plant and animal species exist on a mere 1.4 percent of its land surface, according to a new study published in today’s issue of the journal Nature. The British-American research team that produced the report said the findings indicate that saving a large share of the world’s species […]

Cat on a Hot Radioactive Roof

An ingredient in kitty litter may be just the thing to help clean up a radioactive mess left in West Valley, N.Y., by an old recycling plant for spent nuclear fuel rods. Nearly 1,000 scientists and engineers have spent 18 years and $1.5 billion working to clean up the site, employing such high technology as […]