Articles by Grist staff

Brown vs. Sword of Education

Law students help eco-groups for free and get educated in the process When a nonprofit environmental group with a shoestring budget seeks to confront big government or corporate foes in court, where can it turn? Increasingly, the answer is: law students. Some 30 law schools around the country now host environmental law clinics (nearly half […]

Let Down Your Giardia

Filtering water may not be the answer to most backcountry illnesses Went to the backwoods and ended up with a case of the runs? You probably blamed the water. But according to some medical and wilderness professionals, it is poor personal hygiene, not unsafe water, that usually bedevils the bowels of wilderness backpackers. Medical researcher […]

Switch Emitters

Led by U.S., five nations craft new climate-change pact Australia, China, India, South Korea, and the U.S. have secretly negotiated a global-warming pact that could steal the spotlight from the Kyoto Protocol — or so the U.S. hopes. According to advance word from a meeting of Asia-Pacific nations in Laos, this fledgling “Asia-Pacific Partnership for […]

‘Toon In, Turn On, Drop Out

Do you draw funny stuff? Get in touch! Calling all doodlers, calling all doodlers. Grist is now accepting submissions for our soon-to-be-revamped cartoon section. We’re looking for political cartoons with environmental themes. To get filled in on the technical details — file formats, dpi, etc. — write emailE=(‘cartoons@’ + ‘grist.org’) document.write(‘‘ + emailE + ‘‘) […]