Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

Everybody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

In anticipation of U.S. President Bush’s visit to Madrid tomorrow, thousands of Spaniards marched through the city yesterday to protest Bush’s decision to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on climate change and numerous other White House policies. Greenpeace activists boarded an oil tanker off the coast of France yesterday and hung a huge banner on […]

Deutsch Treat

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and representatives from leading utilities are expected to sign an agreement today to phase out nuclear power within 25 years. The government has taken steps to ensure that the country’s greenhouse gas emissions decline, even as nuclear power is taken away from the electricity grid. It wants renewable energy to account […]