Articles by Grist staff

Better Red Than Dead?

Russia’s 147 million citizens are facing desperate health problems, in part because of the nation’s environmental degradation. In an upcoming issue of Policy Review, Harvard demographer Nicholas Eberstadt writes about Russia’s public health crisis, claiming that “No industrialized country has ever before suffered such a severe and prolonged deterioration during peacetime.” In the first half […]

Republicanes Plan to Mocke Ale Goree

House Republicans are gearing up to ridicule Al Gore for his environmental leanings, hoping to make him the butt of late-night TV jokes just as Dan Quayle was. Today, several conservative House members plan to read on the House floor what they consider to be the most controversial sections of Gore’s 1992 book Earth in […]

U.N. Says Yugoslav Environment Still Da Bomb

NATO’s bombardment of Yugoslavia seems not to have caused significant environmental damage, U.N. officials and some environmental groups said yesterday. Still, an official from the U.N. Environment Programme will continue to assess the situation during a visit to Yugoslavia this week as part of a larger U.N. humanitarian team. Yugoslavia has claimed that massive amounts […]

Habitat's Where Babbitt's At

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt unveiled an ambitious plan yesterday to protect 68 threatened and endangered species living in southern Florida. Babbitt said the government hopes the plan will become a model for approaching species protection on a comprehensive, regional, multi-species level rather than with a piecemeal approach. Under the plan, the feds would work with […]