Articles by Grist staff

A-bomb-inable

Two areas in Yugoslavia hit by NATO air strikes this spring are environmental “hot spots” in need of immediate decontamination, Pekka Haavisto, head of the U.N. environment team’s Balkan task force, said yesterday. Pancevo, a petrochemical industry area north of Belgrade, should be cleaned up before pollution contaminates the Danube River, and Kragujevac, an industrial […]

Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood

Gloria Feldt is president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Monday, 13 Sep 1999 NEW YORK CITY Monday started on Sunday. A call from Mel Carnahan, the governor of Missouri, encouraged me to help raise the last $75,000 needed to complete the media buy to support his veto of an abortion ban bill, which […]

Do the Wild Thing

The Wildlands Project, an eight-year-old Tucson-based group, aims to revolutionize wilderness protection in North America by linking wild areas from coast to coast. Launched by Michael Soule, considered by some the father of conservation biology, and Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!, the group envisions 25 networks that would, among other things, connect Yellowstone to […]

Inventor of the Internet, Savior of the Fish Net

Vice Pres. Al Gore is catching flak for announcing a $5 million aid package for the troubled New England fishing industry, but neglecting to mention that the aid was not new but rather that it had been approved almost a year previously. Gore’s office said he was simply making a “formal official announcement” that the […]