Articles by Grist staff

Johnson Pulls Out

EPA scraps controversial pesticide study Just two days after Senate Democrats announced they would block Stephen Johnson’s confirmation as U.S. EPA administrator until the contentious Children’s Health Environmental Exposure Research Study was cancelled, Johnson bowed to pressure, reversed the agency’s previous wait-and-see position, and pulled the plug. The creepily acronymed CHEERS would have given a […]

You Deserve a Breykjavik

Grist dangles prize, nakedly pursues more readers Other folks will claim to love you, but will they send you to a remote northern island? We didn’t think so. That’s the kind of love we’ve got in our hearts here at Grist. For a limited time, if you get two friends to sign up for our […]

Arni Finnsson of the Iceland Nature Conservation Association answers questions

Arni Finnsson. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Iceland Nature Conservation Association. We are the biggest member-based NGO in Iceland with 1,300 members. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute “mission accomplished”? The powerful glacial river in the Karahnjukar area. Photo: Johann Isberg. INCA was established in 1997 and […]

Who’s Minding the Restore?

Ecosystem restoration is booming business, only getting boominger One positive side effect of polluting and despoiling the planet is that somebody stands to make money cleaning it up. (Hey, our glass is half full!) And sure enough, ecological restoration is a booming business. Viewed narrowly, as attempts to restore natural resources to something approximating their […]