Articles by Grist staff

Right-wingers exploit tsunami by accusing enviros of exploiting tsunami

Was global warming behind the recent catastrophic tsunami in the Indian Ocean? Of course not. Nor did it cause the Iraqi insurgency, the national debt, or Ashley Simpson’s lip-synching episode. A devastated village in India. Photo: USAID. Global warming is an atmospheric phenomenon caused by a buildup of airborne greenhouse gases, and though it’s expected […]

Readers talk back on porn, radicalism, Christmas trees, and more

    Dear Editor: Thank you, thank you, thank you! I never miss my Daily Grist, but most of what I read depresses the hell out of me. Your story on Fuck for Forest is the first thing I’ve seen in a long time that actually gives me hope for the future. I was charmed […]

Consistency Blows

Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist Several readers pointed out — rather snarkily, we might add — the seeming dissonance between Umbra’s latest column praising wind farms and the news, reported the following day, that some such farms have been chopping up quite a few bats. But hey, like […]

Baby Got Adirondack

Pataki protects big swath of New York’s Adirondack Mountains New York Gov. George Pataki (R) yesterday announced a deal whereby some 104,000 acres of land in the northeastern Adirondacks will be protected from development and opened up to public use — the third-largest land conservation deal in state history. The parcels of land lie on […]