Articles by Grist staff

Vole: De Mort

Despite some improvements in recent years, the U.K.’s environment is still in jeopardy, according to a report by the country’s Environment Agency. John Murlis, the agency’s chief scientist, said, “The current state of our environment makes it clear we must take greater responsibility for our consumerist, throwaway society.” The report says that urban air quality […]

I Dunno, Alaska

Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles (D) said on Friday his state would sue to try to prevent President Clinton’s road-building ban from applying to the Tongass and Chugach national forests. Knowles contends that the Alaskan forests should be exempted from the ban because management plans recently approved for the forests after an exhaustive fight between the […]

A Wild Horn Section

The Cameroon government, World Wildlife Fund, and World Conservation Union (IUCN) are planning a rescue mission to save the last 10 Western black rhinos in Africa. Western black rhinos are a subspecies of the African black rhino, one of the last four rhino species on the continent; three other rhino species have already gone extinct. […]

Norton's No Honeymooner

A list of the Interior Department advisory group assembled by President-elect Bush reads like a who’s who of representatives from the logging, mining, and oil drilling industries. Which isn’t surprising, given the background of Bush’s nominee to head the department, Gale Norton. Norton in 1998 founded what is now called the Council of Republicans for […]