Articles by Grist staff

Reservoir Hogs

Norton won’t reduce water releases from Lake Powell Following a year’s worth of unsuccessful negotiations between governors of seven parched Western states, Interior Secretary Gale Norton stepped in yesterday to make a decision on how to divvy up the much-coveted water of the Colorado River. A winter of heavy precipitation and subsequent spring thaws have […]

Tit for Habitat

Habitat conservation plans poorly monitored, sporadically effective Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer kicks off a big three-day series on the increasingly ubiquitous but nonetheless poorly understood and poorly monitored phenomenon of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Congress authorized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to administer such plans in 1982, but it wasn’t until the late ’90s […]

An interview with longtime anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott. Photo: Greg Barrett. In 1971, Helen Caldicott had an epiphany: all life on earth could end at any moment, simply because a few pig-headed people imagined they could “win” a nuclear war. A decade later, she had given up her promising medical career to devote her life to nothing short of saving the […]

Iceland Is Your Land

Last chance to enter Iceland sweepstakes OK, some of you are sick of hearing about Iceland, but others of you are sitting on your hands, bouncing a little, like the kid who had to pee in math class but wasn’t allowed to get up. Because you are dying to know if you’re going to win […]