Articles by Grist staff

Bye-Bye Birdie

Global Warming Brings Catastrophe to U.K. Seabirds Seabirds on the coast of Scotland are facing unprecedented catastrophe, and scientists attribute it directly to global warming. The hundreds of thousands of skuas, terns, and guillemots that populate the coastal cliffs are simply not breeding, and when they are, few offspring survive. They are starving, because the […]

Feet Don’t Fail Me Now

Kerry Delicately Attempts to Go Green and Sway Undecideds The environment rarely ranks high on lists of voters’ concerns, but in a close election, any advantage can be decisive. Thus Kerry’s delicate footwork on green issues. To court the eco-friendly Dem base, he has promised to push for 20 percent of U.S. electricity to come […]

Speech! Speech!

Environment Crops Up in Kerry’s Acceptance Speech John Kerry’s well-received speech at the Democratic National Convention last night saw the often-solemn senator rolling through impassioned lines quickly — some pundits said too quickly — and forcefully. Among those lines were several gems for the green-minded in the audience. The first substantive issue he mentioned was […]

Creative Problem Solving

Bush Administration Abandons EPA Pesticide Review Rule Say you’re a U.S. EPA official, and you’ve got a problem: Several enviro groups have accused your agency of skirting the rules that require you to have wildlife agencies review new pesticides to determine if they pose a threat to endangered species. One such group, the Center for […]