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Michelle Nijhuis reviews The Beast in the Garden by David Baron

One afternoon in mid-January 1991, students in a high school English class in Idaho Springs, Colo., saw a familiar sight outside their classroom windows: Their schoolmate Scott Lancaster, a dedicated competitive cyclist, was starting his daily training run on the wooded ridge behind Clear Creek High School. The 18-year-old clowned for the class as he passed by, then continued on his circuit. He was never seen alive again.

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Bubblicious

Scientists Consider Funky Plans to Avert Climate Change Plans to slow global warming once dismissed as, well, loopy need to be taken seriously, concluded scientists at a conference on climate change in Cambridge, U.K. The proposed schemes can be divided into two families — they aim either to capture greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide […]

Grist staff Climate & Energy

Tipping the Scalias of Justice

Cheney-Scalia Connection Raises Questions About Energy Task Force Case In December, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from Vice President Dick Cheney, who had been ordered by lower courts to release documents related to his secretive energy task force meetings. In January, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Cheney — long-time friends — […]

Grist staff Politics

English Beat

U.K. Sets Ambitious CO2 Reduction Goals The British government yesterday announced a plan to not only meet but beat Kyoto Protocol requirements for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The nation will aim to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 20 percent by 2010 through a combination of regulations and pollution credit trading systems. Industry groups in the […]

Grist staff Culture

The Big Apple of Our Eye

World Trade Center Reconstruction Will Set New Eco-Friendly Standard Reconstruction of New York City’s World Trade Center area — site of the 2001 terrorist attacks — is set to make a green splash as one of the largest eco-friendly building projects ever undertaken. Under environmental guidelines expected to be released today for public comment, new […]

Grist staff Cities

The Report Card

Marc Alston works for the U.S. EPA, Region 8 in Denver. He is on the Ecosystem Stewardship Team, and works in support of community-based environmental protection, with a focus on watershed protection groups. Monday, 19 Jan 2004 DENVER, Colo. I just had a typical conversation: Butch Clark from the Gunnison Basin group called to ask […]

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Sick and Wrong

350 million+ — number of plants and animals involved in international wildlife trade each year1 $6 billion — annual worth of criminal wildlife trade2 99,939 — number of primates legally imported into the U.S. as pets or research animals between 1995 and 20021 80-90 — percentage of macaque monkeys (popular exotic pets) infected with Herpes […]

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The Big Disease-y

New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say Leading wildlife and conservation experts from 10 nations say that stronger controls on global wildlife trade are needed to stem the spread of deadly diseases from exotic animals to humans. “Most wild-caught animals found in pet shops and food markets have never been tested […]

Grist staff Technology

Gore Text

Gore Calls Bush a “Moral Coward” in Speech on Environment The Bush administration is “wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility, and mining companies,” said former Vice President Al Gore in a fiery address to a packed theater in New York City on Thursday. The speech — fourth in a series cosponsored by activist group […]