Articles by Grist staff

Come Down From There Right Now!

Two of 18 environmental activists who have been sitting in redwoods in California’s Humboldt County for almost a year were forcibly removed yesterday by Pacific Lumber Company, raising the longstanding conflict between the two groups to a new level. After the Humboldt County Superior Court issued the tree sitters a temporary restraining order last week, […]

The Thrill of No Drill

With a quarter of a million troops amassing outside Iraq and the city of Baghdad preparing for Armageddon, it’s tough to find anything resembling a silver lining in the headlines. But there was some good news yesterday in the environmental sector: Senate Republicans said they had probably come up short in their efforts to secure […]

Off Balance

Earning kudos from environmentalists, the Michigan Department of Agriculture has banned the use of Balance Pro on the state’s 2.2 million acres of corn fields. Balance Pro is a powerful herbicide and a possible carcinogen that has contaminated surface and groundwater in other states, in some cases lingering in waterways 10 months after a single […]

Wolf Downed

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed changing the status of wolves in the Western U.S. from endangered to threatened, a move that could signal the eventual delisting of the species. Management of the wolves would then be turned over to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The wolf was nearly extinct a half-century ago and […]