Articles by Grist staff

Ape Fear

New plan aims to save endangered great apes of Africa Conservationists are angling to raise $30 million to stop gorillas and chimpanzees from going extinct in the wild within a human generation. The U.N. Environment Program’s just-released “World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation” reveals a poor prognosis for the survival of gorilla and […]

Rays and Confused

Partisan divide stalls California’s solar-roofs bill As its initial bipartisan support devolves into a partisan food fight, California’s Million Solar Roofs legislation may die on the vine. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) withdrew his formerly enthusiastic backing for the bill — which could put $2 billion toward solar-energy generation by 2019 — after Assembly Democrats inserted […]

Ho Chi … Man, I Gotta Pee

Vermont rest stop combines advanced green toilets with Vietnam memorial Like chocolate and peanut butter, it’s a combination so natural you wonder why nobody thought of it earlier: Vermont has built a $6.3 million rest stop featuring an ecologically advanced flush-toilet system, a greenhouse, and … the country’s oldest Vietnam memorial. Located along Interstate 89, […]

A Hop and a Prayer

Eco-activists team with prayer network to save hapless toad This summer’s It amphibian — the endangered arroyo toad of California, famously dismissed as “hapless” by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts — is in the news again. The Center for Biological Diversity has teamed up with Christians Caring for Creation to sue the Bush administration […]