Articles by Grist staff

The Awesome of the Patriarch

Joining the growing movement of religious institutions fighting environmental problems, the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese voted Saturday to launch an environmental activism campaign. The diocese, with 147 parishes and 85,000 members, called for study of environmental issues and a range of actions, from making church buildings more energy-efficient to urging churchgoers to lead simpler lives […]

Sweden Low

The ozone layer over Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia has dwindled to levels nearly as low as those found over the Antarctic, the European Space Agency said last week. Measurements taken in the Netherlands showed that ozone levels were about two-thirds below the norm for this time of year. At a conference in Beijing […]

Bayer Gives Us a Headache

Three years after Congress passed and Pres. Clinton signed to great fanfare a law meant to reduce children’s exposure to pesticides, the law has become a victim of politics as usual, and the EPA’s ability to enforce it, using science as a driving force, has been greatly weakened, according to a six-month investigation by the […]

Ding, Dong, the Round Is Dead

The World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting in Seattle ended in failure on Friday night, with delegates unable to reach agreement on issues to be addressed in a new round of trade talks. Enviros and other activists who had protested on the Seattle streets against the WTO, pointing to free trade’s damaging effects on the environment, […]