Articles by Grist staff

Stop Your Blubbering

Norway, which since 1986 has flouted an international ban on commercial whaling, has stockpiled about 500 tons of blubber from thousands of minke whales, which it hopes to someday sell to the Japanese. The Japanese consider the blubber to be a delicacy, but its sale abroad is outlawed by the Convention on International Trade in […]

Hyperlinks Save Lynx

Last-minute gifts from technology millionaires and others throughout Washington state have helped raise enough money to spare a major wilderness area along the U.S.-Canadian border from logging. Donations of $3 million have come in during the last week, making a total of $13.1 million that enviros have raised to buy logging rights to 25,000 acres […]

Wave Bye-Bye

If climate change continues unchecked, it could destroy the world’s great coral reefs within a century, according to a new report conducted by German and Australian marine scientists and released by Greenpeace. A rise in water temperature of just one or two degrees stresses coral and causes it to expel its life-giving microscopic zooxanthellae plants, […]

Post-NATO Baby Care

Pancevo, Yugoslavia, a city 10 miles northeast of Belgrade, seems to have suffered the worst environmental damage from NATO’s bombing campaign. Doctors privately recommended that all women who were in town the night of April 18 — when bombs destroyed a refinery, fertilizer plant, and petrochemical complex, releasing a dense, toxic cloud — avoid pregnancy […]