Articles by Grist staff

Californians to Stop Passing Gas?

The California Air Resources Board today will consider a first-of-its-kind crackdown on something usually not thought of as an environmental threat: small, portable gas cans. The cans are so leak-prone and ubiquitous — there are an estimated 10 million in California — that they are responsible for as much smog-forming pollution as 1 million cars, […]

New Kink for Perverse Subsidies

If the world’s governments took just a portion of the money they use for environmentally damaging subsidies and used it for conservation efforts, the world’s rich diversity of species could be preserved, according to a new study in the journal Nature. Researchers at the University of Cambridge calculated that governments spend between $950 billion and […]

Oil and U'wa Don't Mix

In a move that a Colombian Indian tribe says could mean the end of its culture and people, Colombia’s government yesterday granted Occidental Petroleum a license to explore for oil just outside a 543,000-acre reserve inhabited by the U’wa Indian nation. The company had initially sought permission to explore directly on U’wa land, but the […]

Fund for the Whole Family

Worldwide funding for family planning and women’s health has fallen billions of dollars below targeted levels even as the world’s population climbs toward 6 billion, the U.N. said yesterday. The U.N. will mark the birth of the planet’s 6 billionth citizen on October 12. The number of people in the world has doubled since 1960, […]