Articles by Grist staff

PR You Serious?

Forest Service Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan Remember that controversial U.S. Forest Service plan unveiled in January that aims to triple commercial logging in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains? The one they said would “protect small communities” and create “forests with a future”? The one that critics said flew in the face of wide […]

Dispatches from an international conference on genetically modified corn

Carmelo Ruiz is a Puerto Rican journalist, a research associate of the Institute for Social Ecology, a fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, and a senior fellow of the Society of Environmental Journalists. This week he is attending the Maize and Biodiversity Symposium.. Tuesday, 9 Mar 2004 OAXACA CITY, Mexico So here I am in […]

Energy bill may be gaining ground, but prospects are still dicey

It’s a gas, gas, gas. U.S. oil prices jumped to their highest levels since the Iraq war this week, hitting $37.51 a barrel, for an average of about $1.74 a gallon — unwelcome news for those feeling the pinch at the pump, but great news for supporters of the newly overhauled but still-stalled energy bill. […]

Wanderlost

Migratory Routes Increasingly Threatened One of the significant but little-noted shortcomings of wildlife preserves is that they only protect animals that stay put. Biologists who study large-scale animal migrations worry that many of nature’s most spectacular feats of persistence and survival are threatened by habitat loss and development. For instance, each winter pronghorn antelope travel […]