Articles by Grist staff

Why the new “Green Revolution” in Africa may be misguided

In a bid to move “tens of millions of people out of extreme poverty” and “significantly” reduce hunger, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has teamed with the Rockefeller Foundation to launch a new “Green Revolution” in Africa. These high-profile foundations have committed a combined $150 million toward fulfilling their admirable goals. But a look […]

Tender Loving Caribou

Judge sides with caribou, bans snowmobiles from some Idaho national forests Mountain caribou celebrated last week as a judge banned snowmobiles from a nearly 470-square-mile caribou recovery zone in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The ban will hold unless the U.S. Forest Service can develop a winter recreation strategy that would enable noisy, polluting vehicles […]

The Quality of Commerce Is Strain’d

Nature charges that Commerce Department blocked climate-change report The Commerce Department blocked a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report indicating that climate change contributes to stronger hurricanes, the journal Nature reported yesterday. In February, a seven-member NOAA panel was directed to prepare a report on agency views regarding climate change and hurricanes, and a draft […]

So That’s Why We Can Never Find a Parking Space

U.S. population to hit 300 million in October As the U.S. population ticks ever closer to the 300 million mark — 299,800,000-plus and counting! — many enviros worry that the rising numbers will amplify existing environmental problems. “The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world experiencing significant population growth,” says Vicky Markham of […]