Articles by Grist staff

Movin' On Up

Global warming could dramatically change a third of the world’s plant and animal habitat and drive some species to extinction by 2100, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund. The report says that areas in the high northern latitudes, such as northern Russia, Scandinavia, and Canada, are likely to be hardest hit, with […]

Big Brother Is Watching

An eco-friendly bandit, Shiv Kumar, has eluded police for decades in the forests of north-central India, taking on illegal loggers and once gunning down a poacher for killing black bucks. Kumar, also known as Dadua, or “big brother,” has 241 criminal charges on his police record, ranging from extortion to murder, but forestry officials view […]

The Prisoner's Dilemma

Rodolfo Montiel Flores, a poor Mexican farmer and environmental activist who was arrested in May 1999 on what enviro and human rights groups say are trumped up charges, was sentenced yesterday to nearly seven years in prison. A district judge in the Mexican state of Guerrero found Montiel guilty of drugs and weapons crimes, though […]

Pumices, Pumices

After a decade-long struggle, 13 Native American tribes and the Sierra Club have finally succeeded in closing down a strip mine in Arizona that supplied much of the pumice used around the world to make stonewashed denim. Federal officials and the mining company signed an agreement yesterday to shut down the mining operation within six […]