Articles by Grist staff

Pop, the Question

A U.N. conference on Friday agreed to a plan to curb world population growth, including controversial recommendations for sex education at all school levels, confidential contraceptive advice for teenagers, and safer abortions in countries where they are legal. The plan also asks governments to help curb the spread of the AIDS virus, which now infects […]

Greens See Red

A leader of Germany’s Green Party warned German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday that the Greens may desert his coalition if it does not honor a pledge to phase out nuclear power. “This is perhaps the Greens’ main reason for being in the coalition,” said party co-leader Antje Radcke. The Greens rejected proposals to spread a […]

Orrin't You Angry about This?

Pres. Clinton plans to nominate as a federal judge a Utah Republican who is bitterly opposed by environmental groups, administration sources said last week. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been pushing the nomination, and Clinton agreed to it so that Hatch would end his months-long blockade of the president’s […]

Bloomin' Hell!

In the worst fish kill in Maryland in more than a decade, at least 200,000 fish have died in the past week along two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Officials blamed the fish deaths on buildups of phosphorus and nitrogen, which create algae blooms that deplete oxygen in water. A drought in the area has […]