Articles by Grist staff

Re-Tire-Ment Benefits

Australian researchers say they have developed a highly efficient way to recycle car and truck tires to produce a rubber composite that could be used in shoe soles, car components, building products, coatings, sealants, and containers for hazardous waste. The researchers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization say their discovery could help deal […]

We're Not Out of the Woods Yet

Governments around the world are failing to protect forests, and drastic action must be taken to curb commercial logging, according to a new report produced by a coalition of major international environmental groups. Logging threatens wildlife, exacerbates climate change, and causes flooding, soil erosion, and fire, the report says. Even selective logging, it says, causes […]

Orangu-Tangle

Two enviro groups are launching a major campaign today to halt illegal logging that is threatening endangered orangutans in Indonesian national parks. About 80 percent of the orangutans’ forest habitat has been destroyed in the last 20 years, and the animals’ numbers have been halved in the last decade to no more than 25,000, according […]

A Project Worth Its Salt

Pressure from environmentalists has led a major company in Mexico to modify a planned salt-mining operation along the Baja California coast, the first time a company in Mexico has modified a project because of public input. But a number of enviro groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, are still protesting the salt works operation, […]