Articles by Grist staff

Welcome Back, Carter

Former President Carter said yesterday that President Clinton should designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge a national monument “without further delay,” shielding it from the threat of oil and gas drilling. Carter said he would personally talk with Clinton about protecting the 1.5 million-acre coastline in Alaska, and he urged environmentalists […]

Commission: Possible

The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state’s top environmental body, acknowledged yesterday that global warming may pose threats to the state and said it would explore ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The move by the commission, headed by three appointees of Gov. George W. Bush, came a month after environmental groups filed a […]

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 […]