Articles by Grist staff

Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread

Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread The stakes in the debate over genetically modified (GM) food are about to jump significantly, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to complete a safety and nutrition review of wheat that has been genetically altered by biotech giant Monsanto. To date, GM […]

Putin: His Foot in His Mouth?

Russia Might Ratify Kyoto Protocol, After All Mark Twain once famously commented that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. Much the same could be said of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which was pronounced dead by gun-jumping news sources (Grist among them, we regret to say) when Andrei Illarionov, chief economic […]

Jumping for Joy

Famed Frog Rediscovered After Years of Presumed Local Extinction Speaking of Mark Twain, the amphibian he made famous in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” has been discovered in the eponymous California region, 34 years after it was thought to have disappeared. A few of the threatened frogs were found by the 6- and […]

Through Sick and Thin

“Healthy Forests” Becomes Law While Endangered Species Rules Are Relaxed President Bush signed his “Healthy Forests” initiative into law yesterday, a move that, never mind the name, left many environmentalists feeling sick. The Bush administration says the law will prevent fires by increasing the amount of logging permissible in forests, especially near populated areas, but […]