Articles by Grist staff

Enough With the Snowmobiles Already

Bush Administration Pushes for Snowmobiles in Yellowstone — Again The saga of snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park contains more twists and turns than a Grisham novel. Only without the sex. Or violence. But plenty of lawsuits! And snowmobiles! The latest: The Bush administration unveiled a plan today that would allow up to 720 snowmobiles into […]

Grand Old Protest

Activists Divided Over Protest Tactics at GOP Convention Many enviros will be among the hundreds of thousands of protesters flooding into New York City at the end of the month to protest the Republican National Convention — or rather, to protest environmental rollbacks, corporate cronyism, tax cuts for the rich, indifference to poverty, abortion restrictions, […]

Developing Nations Do It Faster

Population to Grow Rapidly in Developing Countries The world population is expected to balloon from 6.3 billion to 9.3 billion by 2050, and nearly 99 percent of the growth will take place in developing countries, according to comprehensive new population projections released yesterday by the Population Reference Bureau. Industrialized countries like Japan and most countries […]

Clime Against Humanity

Report Warns Europe Particularly Vulnerable to Climate Change Europe will suffer worse, and sooner, than other parts of the world from climate change, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency. The report “pulls together a wealth of evidence that climate change is already happening and having widespread impacts, many of them with […]