Articles by Grist staff

Soothe the Salvage Beast

Ecologists Warn Against Salvage Logging Salvage logging — harvesting burnt trees from the site of a fire — is not, contrary to public perception and federal practice, an environmentally benign method of gathering timber, write a group of forest ecologists in an article in the journal Science. Dead wood, they say, plays an important ecological […]

There’s Coal in Them Thar Hills

New Coal-Fired Power Plants on the Horizon Coal, for decades the reviled stepchild of the U.S. energy family, is about to become the prodigal son. Stoked by easy availability, the rising costs of other fuels, and a growing desire to reduce dependence on foreign oil and gas, coal is roaring back: Plans are in the […]

Every Which Way but Laos

Laos’ Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing A perfect storm of widespread poverty, corrupt and inefficient communist leadership, and international indifference has made the Southeast Asian nation of Laos a virtual case study in environmental decline. Although it is one of the world’s poorest and least developed nations, Laos is rich with natural resources, which represent […]

Buy Winslow, Sell High

Green Investment Fund Doubles Returns The Winslow Green Growth Fund, established in 1994 and run by Matthew Patsky, has doubled its worth in the last 12 months — and outperformed stock benchmarks like the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index — by investing in environmentally and socially responsible companies. Winslow targets such companies as Quantum Fuel […]