Articles by Grist staff

Gee, an Air Quality Website. Thanks a Lot, Britain.

Britain announced a new strategy yesterday to clean up its air, focusing on changes to the transportation sector such as encouraging the development of cleaner fuels and automotive technology. The government specifically talked up a new air quality website that will provide warnings for people with respiratory problems. Friends of the Earth criticized the government’s […]

Searching for a Cod Peace

The fish wars heated up on the East Coast of the U.S. yesterday as the New England Fisheries Management Council angered the fishing community by voting to tighten fishing restrictions intended to rebuild cod stocks in the Gulf of Maine. The National Marine Fisheries Service will make the final decision in two weeks on the […]

French Against Frying

France unveiled a plan to fight global warming yesterday, with the aim of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent from 1990 levels by 2010 to meet its goals under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. The plan includes an energy consumption tax on industries that will go into effect in 2001, but industries under […]

The Rio World

Some 250,000 gallons of oil were spilled Tuesday into the waters off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the worst ecological disaster to hit the region in 25 years. The oil, which poured out of a ruptured pipeline running from a nearby refinery operated by the state-owned oil company Petrobras, had spread across a 24-square-mile area by […]