Articles by Grist staff

See Spot Live

The World Bank, Conservation International, and the Global Environment Facility joined together yesterday to unveil a new $150 million fund aimed at preserving biodiversity by protecting “hot spots,” or threatened areas with heavy concentrations of plant and animal species. The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, as the project has been dubbed, will help create new national […]

The Cutting Edge

A key committee in the California state Senate voted yesterday to ban clear-cutting in the state on public and private land, a move that would be unprecedented in the U.S. The ban would be lifted only if the state legislature voted to do so, after reviewing an independent study on the environmental and economic effects […]

How Does This Sound?

Loggers in the Clayoquot Sound region of British Columbia chopped down a few old-growth trees yesterday to the sound of cheers from Canadian environmentalists. After a bitter, 17-year battle over logging in the region’s forests, enviros are backing a new company called Iisaak Forest Resources, which will practice small-scale, selective, sustainable logging, removing the downed […]

Not Just a Fluke

Whale watching has become a booming $1 billion-a-year industry, bringing a new, generally eco-friendly form of income to many cash-strapped areas around the world, according to a report released yesterday by the Massachusetts-based International Fund for Animal Welfare. By 1998, whale watching was going on in about 500 communities in at least 87 countries, up […]