Articles by Grist staff

The Expiration Superhighway

Sales of endangered critters rampant on the web What do deviant porn and endangered elephants have in common? No, not that, you twisted perv! The answer: Both are easy to find in the anonymous wilds of the world wide web. The International Fund for Animal Welfare found that in just one week, nearly 9,000 wildlife […]

David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Friday, 29 Jul 2005 SEATTLE, Wash. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of one of the […]

Smokey and Mirrors

Feds cut estimated economic worth of recreation in national forests During the Clinton administration, the U.S. Forest Service estimated that by the year 2000, recreation in national forests would contribute about $111 billion a year to the American economy. Now the Bush administration has slashed that estimate by a whopping $100 billion for 2002, down […]

Consider This a Bear Hug

Fervent support from Grist readers brings a tear to our eye Really, you’re too much. Our two-week fundraiser is over, and more than 1,000 of you responded to our desperate, naked pleas for support, sending a remarkable $54,478.74 our way. You shot the mercury right out of our hackneyed fundraising thermometer, forcing us to stare […]