Articles by Grist staff

Going Ape

Wildlife got a break in the Republic of Congo yesterday when the government quadrupled the size of Odzala National Park to 3.2 million acres, about half the size of Vermont. Much of the land had been slated for logging. Conservation International is helping to fund the expansion of the park, which provides habitat for 15,000 […]

In the Forest, the Mighty Forest, the Lyons Speaks Tonight

“It would be a feather in the cap” of the logging industry if it stopped cutting down old-growth trees, Undersecretary of Agriculture Jim Lyons said earlier this week. Lyons, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, predicted the end of old-growth logging on private and public land within 10 years, in response to strong public sentiment. […]

Hold the Anchovies

Hake, cod, and anchovy populations are being driven towards extinction in European waters and fisheries ministers are meeting today to debate whether to cut catch quotas by up to 74 percent next year to save the most threatened stocks. During their annual meeting, the ministers usually talk about raising quotas to help fishers, but this […]

Vex and the City

Dust and soot in the air contribute to between 20 and 200 early deaths a day across 20 of the largest cities in the U.S., according to a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The new report, the largest coast-to-coast study of the problem, found […]