Articles by Grist staff

Char and Away

Salvage logging after fires harms forests, new report claims The Bush administration has oft trumpeted the benefits of postfire salvage logging — coincidentally, a practice of great financial benefit to timber companies. But a recent report by the American Lands Alliance claims salvage logging is harming national forests. Fire experts and other scientists analyzed historical […]

You Make Me Wanna Spout

Conservation agreement will help protect gray-whale lagoon in Mexico OK, stay calm. We don’t want to freak you out or anything, but we’ve got some … good news. Seems American and Mexican conservationists have united with local Mexican landholders to preserve a pristine gray-whale calving ground. The Laguna San Ignacio, an area of bird-friendly wetlands […]

Dumping to a Conclusion

Louisiana officials and enviros clash over disposal of hurricane debris The pressure on regional officials to cleanse New Orleans of the trash and debris left by Hurricane Katrina is intense — so intense that eco-groups say they’re cutting corners, sending garbage to areas not equipped to handle it, and on the verge of creating a […]

Arbor Slay

Poverty drives forest loss in Malawi Southern Africa’s Malawi (yes, it’s a country — look it up) loses about 200 square miles of forest a year to illegal logging for firewood and charcoal; over a fifth of the nation’s forests disappeared between 1990 and 2000. Twenty-three tree species are endangered, streams are drying up, air […]