Articles by Grist staff

Yukon Count on Me

Group aims to create wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon Recognizing that halting development is just not feasible (these are humans we’re talking about), a group called Y2Y wants to create a wildlife corridor stretching from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon in northwest Canada that would allow animals and people to coexist peaceably. A […]

Gone to Speed

Globe will warm faster than predicted, new studies say Global warming won’t be as bad as we thought, says new research — it’ll be worse. Two separate climate-change studies factored in increased carbon dioxide released from warming soil, forests, and oceans, and came up with similar results: current climate models may underestimate warming by 15 […]

The Aye Yi Yi of the Storm

NOAA predicts active hurricane season this year This year’s hurricane season, which starts June 1, will produce up to 10 hurricanes in the North Atlantic, up to six of which will be Category 3 (winds over 111 miles per hour) or above, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted yesterday. NOAA thinks it will be […]

John Suttles, Southern environmental lawyer, answers questions

John Suttles. What work do you do? I’m a senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. How does it relate to the environment? For the past 20 years, the Southern Environmental Law Center — the biggest environmental organization headquartered in the Southeast — has used the full power of the […]