Articles by Grist staff

Making a U-tern

Stoking the fires of the Midwest’s most contentious environmental issue, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed yesterday that the flow of water in the Missouri River should be increased in the spring to save fish and birds from extinction. Gen. Carl Strock became the first Corps official to […]

You Picked a Fine Time to Fund Me, Lucille

Halfway through a five-year effort to preserve wildlife habitat and farmland in Central California, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation issued a report yesterday saying that it could not go it alone and that the land preservation movement needed long-term support from the state government to be successful. The foundation is funding a $175 million […]

Panda-monium

Two decades into the effort to save giant pandas in China from extinction, the greatest remaining threat to pandas may be poor farmers. Chinese authorities estimate that only about 1,000 pandas continue to live in the wild after logging and poaching decimated the animal’s ranks. In recent years, the country has introduced stiff fines to […]

Whooping Ukraine

Greenpeace leaked a report coming out of Austria yesterday that questions the safety of two nuclear plants meant to succeed reactors at Chernobyl in the Ukraine. The report to the Austrian government by Vienna University describes the Soviet-designed reactors, which are 80 percent completed, as “highly hazardous.” The London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development […]