Articles by Grist staff

Drill Team

Thought the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was (thank goodness) finally over? Think again: An inexplicable move by the Senate Democratic leadership could revive the Bush administration’s campaign to pump gas and oil out of the pristine Alaskan wilderness. When debate over the nation’s energy plan moved into a joint House-Senate […]

Todd Paglia, ForestEthics

Todd Paglia is the founder and director of The Paper Campaign at ForestEthics. When not working to protect forests, he’s often found on his road bike, far off in the distance. Monday, 6 May 2002 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. It’s all around you. Right now as you read this it is probably covering your desk, bulging […]

Enron’s End Run

Here’s another victim of Enron: the Chiquitano Dry Tropical Forest, one of the two most valuable forests in Latin America and one of the 200 most endangered eco-regions in the world, according to the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund, respectively. The forest was the largest remaining undeveloped land of its kind in South […]

Strange Treefellows

Conservationists are probably more closely identified with the struggle to save forests from logging than with any other environmental battle, as the label “tree hugger” suggests. So it was a case of strange bedfellows when enviros and industry representatives met late last month at the Forest Leadership Forum to discuss ways to better protect the […]