Articles by Grist staff

Markey Mark and the Bushie Bunch

President Bush is asking Congress to effectively suspend a part of the Endangered Species Act that lets citizens sue the government if they think the feds are not moving quickly enough to add species to the protected list. In the past, environmentalists have used the right to sue to win protections for dozens of species […]

Whoa, Canada

Canada’s environmental record ranks second-worst in the world compared to 28 other industrialized nations, according to a study by a professor at the University of Victoria. Switzerland came out No. 1, while the U.S. brought up the rear in the study, which ranked per-capita measurements of greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy consumption, logging, and […]

Trouble in River City

The Missouri River is the country’s most endangered waterway, says American Rivers, which yesterday released its annual list of rivers in trouble. The group says that several species face extinction along the Missouri because of six dams run by feds to control the river for the benefit of a small amount of barge traffic. The […]

Sonar or Later

It is highly likely that Sonar transmissions from U.S. Navy ships caused an unprecedented number of whales and a dolphin to strand themselves in shallow waters off northern Bahama islands last March, according to a task force from the Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service. But the Navy is still hoping to get a […]