Articles by Grist staff

Sarah Matsumoto, Endangered Species Coalition

Sarah Matsumoto is the GREEN Western Organizer for the Endangered Species Coalition. Based in Albuquerque, N.M., she works to protect wildlife and wildlands across the U.S. and especially in the West. Monday, 9 Oct 2000 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Monday mornings always remind me of a quote by E. B. White that I used to have hanging […]

The Pacific Grim

Air pollution from factories and power plants in booming Asian cities is blowing across the Pacific to the West Coast of North America, posing threats to human health and wildlife far from the pollution’s original sources, according to a report published last week in the journal Science. Report coauthor Kenneth Wilkening of the University of […]

The Lesser of Two Weevils?

China is embracing genetically engineered crops more quickly than any other Asian nation, hoping that the technology will help its small farmers grow more low-cost, high-quality crops that can better compete on the world market, now that China is on track to join the World Trade Organization. Since 1997, Beijing has given approval to more […]

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. […]