Articles by Grist staff

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

Lights Out in Skyscrapers Can Save Birds Everyone knows that turning off the lights saves energy — but did you know it can save birds too? Migratory birds are drawn to lights in skyscrapers, an attraction that too often causes them to crash into the buildings’ plate-glass windows or die of exhaustion after flying confusedly […]

Rue the Day

Paris May Ban SUVs From City Streets Parisian officials have determined that SUVs are no longer in vogue. The left-leaning city council yesterday passed a resolution that urges the capital’s Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, to effectively ban the bulky four-wheel-drive vehicles from the city center during peak pollution times and deny their owners parking permits […]

Those Were the Lost Days of Our Lives

Bush Pollution Plan Falls Short on Saving Lives More than 90 percent of the 23,600 deaths caused in the U.S. each year by pollution from old coal-fired power plants could be prevented if the federal government adopted tough emissions regulations, according to a new study, but President Bush’s preferred pollution-control plan falls far short of […]

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

China Finds More Giant Pandas than Expected Good news on the endangered species front (and you didn’t think there was such a thing!): A comprehensive survey has found 40 percent more giant pandas living in the wild in China than previously thought — nearly 1,600. The higher numbers may be the result of more sophisticated […]