Articles by Grist staff

Zed, last of his species, in "Vast Wasteland to the Max"

Kelp Wanted

Seaweed Day in Japan was a bummer yesterday for environmentalists and fishers. They are in a tizzy over a project to reclaim land on what was the country’s largest tidal wetland on Isahaya Bay in the Ariake Sea. The government closed flood-control dikes and ramped up its project to convert the wetland to solid ground […]

So Much for the Rule of the Law

To the delight of the timber, energy, and mining industries, the Bush administration has delayed for at least two months former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forest land. However, because the plan was published in the Federal Register before President Bush took office, enviros are saying […]

Tamayo, Tamayo, I Love You, Tamayo

Mexican President Vicente Fox met yesterday with supporters of two jailed environmental activists and asked his lawyers to review whether the activists had been framed. Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, who led peasant farmers in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero in protests against rampant logging in their region, have been sentenced to seven and 10 […]