Articles by Grist staff

Research and Destroy

Before departing for Europe yesterday, President Bush gave his first speech devoted to global warming, promising to begin a program to research the problem more thoroughly but giving little indication of policies he would recommend to bring down greenhouse gas emissions. He said the Kyoto treaty on climate change was “fatally flawed in fundamental ways,” […]

Heart and Souls

An individual’s risk of heart attack is 62 percent greater on days with the worst air pollution, according to a study of 772 heart attack victims in Greater Boston published today in the journal of the American Hearth Association. The study by researchers at the Beth Israel Deaconess, the Harvard School of Public Health, and […]

No Sale

Environmentalists agree with the U.S. Forest Service that four timber sales planned along Eagle Creek in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon are some of the best sales ever designed — they target no old-growth timber, avoid clear-cutting, and require little road-building. So why have enviros staged two years of protests against the sales? […]

Condor Gnashed

In an effort to boost her green credentials, U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton is fond of talking about the success of the program to reintroduce captive-bred California condors into the wild. But scientists aren’t so sure the program is a success. Reintroduced birds are being threatened by their old nemesis: lead from bullets. Four birds […]