Articles by Grist staff

For Whales, LaDuke's a Hazard

During a weekend campaign swing through the Northwest, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader outlined his views on a number of environmental issues. He called for a total ban on logging in national forests, for an end to federal land swaps, which he says usually benefit private interests rather than the public, and for the […]

Bangla-death?

About 25 million people in Bangladesh, nearly 20 percent of the country’s population, are at risk of injury or death from arsenic in their drinking water, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF is working to raise awareness of the problem and encourage water filtering and collection of rainwater for drinking. In the past, […]

Editorial License

One good thing about the melting ice and open water found at the North Pole earlier this month — they spurred both the New York Times and Washington Post to run editorials today talking up environmental protection. The Times reminds us that the White House plays a “decisive” role in all matters environmental, and gives […]

Steve Yanoviak, tropical biologist

Steve Yanoviak is a postdoctoral research associate at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and he currently resides in Costa Rica nine months of the year, researching rain forest canopy insect diversity in the Monteverde cloud forest. He has been studying the ecology of tropical insects for over seven years. Sunday, 27 Aug 2000 […]