Articles by Grist staff

Congratulations! It's a boy!

The world’s 6 billionth inhabitant, a boy in Sarajevo, was born today. U.N. demographers chose today as a symbolic marker of the population milestone. Some 78 million new people are born each year, and the equivalent of San Francisco’s population is born every three days. Although the population growth rate is slowing, human numbers have […]

Something's Rockin' in Denmark

Denmark, the world’s wind-power powerhouse, has embarked on a 10-year government project to run an entire community, the island of Samso, solely on renewable energy. The country already gets 7 percent of its electricity from wind, and by 2030 that percentage should rise to 50, according to the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy. Denmark’s […]

The Road to Hell is Paved by the Clinton Administration?

Pres. Clinton kowtowed to the Republican leadership on Saturday by signing into law a transportation funding bill that contained a provision extending for another year a freeze on developing or even studying new fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks. A White House spokesperson said that although the administration believed the provision was “ill-advised,” […]

Tiger Balm

The tiger may be making a comeback, after many biologists predicted that it would be all but extinct by the year 2000. Conservationists warn against complacency and stress that the tiger is still endangered, but they are optimistic about rebounding populations in some areas, including eastern Siberia, Nepal, and parts of India. The good news […]