Articles by Grist staff

Killer Waves, Dude

Researchers Predict Hotter, Longer Heat Waves So, having learned that we can meliorate climate change, we flip a few pages over in the latest issue of Science to find out what will happen if we don’t — and it isn’t pretty. Scientists predict that heat waves in some parts of Europe and North America will […]

Tribes and Tribulations

Indigenous Tribe in Ecuador Resists Big Oil Ecuador is one of South America’s poorest countries, and like many poor countries, it is in considerable debt to developed nations. Fifty percent of its national budget comes from oil, and the International Monetary Fund is using its debt to pressure it to extract still more. Yet despite […]

Does a Bear Fit in the Woods?

Enviros Protest New Forest Service Grizzly Habitat Plan Grizzly bears in the six national forests around Yellowstone National Park — the largest grizzly ecosystem in the lower 48 states — are to be taken off the Endangered Species Act’s list of protected species. But the U.S. Forest Service plan to subsequently protect their habitat, revealed […]

Bush administration cites “national security” as reason to skirt enviro rules

What are the enviro impacts of a construction project on the U.S.-Mexico border? Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Bush administration has proposed yet another list of environmental sacrifices that it believes America should make for the War on Terror. Last year, President Bush pushed through legislation that exempts military training bases from cornerstone […]