Articles by Grist staff

Don't Have a Cow, Man

A cow in Iowa has been implanted with a cloned embryo of an endangered Asian gaur, an ox-like animal native to the jungles of India and Southeast Asia. The experiment marks the first time an endangered species has been cloned, and the first time a cloned animal has gestated in the womb of another species. […]

Natural Born Whale Killers

Environmentalists are planning to petition the feds later this month to list Pacific Northwest orca whales, also known as killer whales, under the Endangered Species Act. They say that PCB pollution is making the orcas more vulnerable to disease and early death and that devastated salmon runs in the region are hurting the orcas, which […]

Catch a Poacher By the Toe

A project to protect endangered tigers in Thailand’s Khao Yai national park is arming 28 rangers with M-16s and training them to do everything from setting up remote infrared cameras that record wildlife to disarming poachers. The project, organized by two U.S.-based groups, the World Conservation Society and WildAid, and funded in part by the […]

You Have the Right to Remain Noisy

Texas officials have tentatively agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by environmentalists who were arrested for peacefully protesting on the sidewalk in front of the governor’s mansion, the residence of George W. Bush. The enviros, who were calling on Bush to push for a measure requiring old polluting industrial plants to clean […]