Articles by Grist staff

Scales of Justice

In a decision celebrated by salmon advocates, a federal judge ruled on Friday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been violating the Clean Water Act with its four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington state. She agreed with enviros that the dams raise water temperatures and dissolved nitrogen levels beyond standards […]

They Wouldn't Touch Pollution With a 10-foot Poll

Sixty-four percent of Californians don’t want environmental protections rolled back as part of a solution to the current energy crisis, according to a Los Angeles Times poll. Almost 90 percent of respondents said they had taken steps in the last six months to reduce their own energy consumption. Sixty percent said they would oppose more […]

Marine Core

As much as one-fifth of the world’s oceans should be put off-limits to fishing to save large numbers of fish and other aquatic species from going extinct, according to a consensus statement released by 150 of the world’s leading marine scientists. Scientists have spent more than two years studying whether large marine reserves allow fish […]

The Oh-Nos of Kilimanjaro

The ice cap on Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone in 15 years, says Lonnie G. Thompson, a researcher at Ohio State University. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this weekend, Thompson said that 82 percent of the ice cap that existed on the mountain in 1912 […]