Articles by Grist staff

Dustup in the Wind

Proposed wind farms spark controversy in Kansas It seems that controversy over wind turbines — a common feature of the European political landscape — has crossed the Atlantic and headed for the American heartland. In the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas, farmers and ranchers are organizing to ward off plans by wind developers to build […]

Potomac Daddies

Male bass in Potomac River laying eggs Male bass in the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia are laying eggs. This is not behavior that people in the know typically expect from male bass. While researchers assume that pollutants of some sort are responsible, this particular stretch of the Potomac does well […]

Oh Brother, Where Art … Oh, There You Are

Jeb Bush borrows money to accelerate Everglades plan President Bush has made much of his devotion to wetlands, even vowing during the second debate to “increase the wetlands by 3 million.” Three whole million! But the nation’s biggest environmental initiative — signed into law in 2000 and aimed at restoring Florida’s most beloved wetlands, the […]

Frog and Toad Are Dead

One-third of amphibians threatened with extinction If it is true that amphibians are, as Conservation International’s Russell Mittermeier puts it, “one of nature’s best indicators of overall environmental health,” then we are all in big trouble, because amphibians are having a seriously rough time of it. According to a massive new worldwide study involving more […]