Articles by Grist staff

Sting Like a Butterfly

Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, […]

Throwing Their Wait Around

Senate Democrats announced yesterday that they would not consider new energy legislation until next year, angering Republicans who had hoped to quickly finalize a plan favored by the Bush administration. The Bush plan, which would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and provide about $30 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to the […]

Phnom Penh Pals

More than 300 officials and activists are gathering today in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to establish the Asian agenda for next year’s World Summit on Sustainable Development, which will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Asia is a critical testing ground for sustainability, because it is home to half the world’s population and is plagued by […]

Generation Icks

The Bush administration’s energy plan, which calls for the creation of 2,000 new generating plants in the next six years, would substantially increase the greenhouse gas emissions that spur global warming, according to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. The commission, which monitors the effects of NAFTA on the environment, said carbon dioxide emissions from electricity […]