Articles by Grist staff

You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes

At least 35 sea lions were found dead and mutilated in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands on Sunday. Acting on an anonymous tip, officials of the Galapagos National Park discovered the bodies washed up on the beach, with their teeth and genitalia removed. Authorities suspect that the sea lions were killed to sell the body parts as […]

A Bee in Their Bonnet

The chair of the current climate change conference, Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, said yesterday that his “hopes are growing day by day” that an international agreement would be reached. But others at the conference in Bonn, Germany, were far more pessimistic about a positive outcome. It’s not just environmental groups that are pulling for […]

We'll Mop the Floor With Them

The U.S. House Resources Committee voted 26-17 yesterday to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, but Democrats believe they will be able to win enough votes from Republican moderates to defeat the measure on the House floor. Meanwhile, the full U.S. Senate passed a bill yesterday to ban drilling under […]

Top of the R&D Charts

Undercutting an argument made by the Bush administration, a study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has found that federal research and development efforts to improve energy conservation and efficiency have produced big environmental and economic gains. The academy released a report yesterday detailing how a $13 billion federal investment since 1978 has returned […]