Articles by Grist staff

Getting Your Goat

Large herds of goats and flocks of sheep are being used in woods and fields across the U.S. to reduce the risk of forest fires and protect native plants by dining on thick brush and invasive species. For example, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is using sheep to chow through kudzu, an invasive vine, […]

To Summit All Up

During a campaign swing through Washington state on Friday, Al Gore pledged that he would convene a salmon summit if elected president, bringing together all interested parties to help hammer out a solution to the crisis of declining salmon runs in the Northwest. But even as he tried to play up his green credentials, Gore […]

Jim Leichter, Aquarius Underwater Laboratory

Jim Leichter is a postdoctoral researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This is his fourth saturation diving mission at Aquarius, where a team of six aquanauts will spend nine days in the underwater laboratory 63 feet below the ocean’s surface in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Monday, 12 Jun 2000 CONCH REEF, Fla CONCH REEF, […]

Dino Might!

Calling for more use of renewable energy sources, hundreds of protestors concerned about global warming demonstrated yesterday at the start of the five-day World Petroleum Congress meeting in Calgary, Canada. The congress, which includes more than 2,500 delegates from 87 countries, is the latest target of anti-globalization groups that have protested against the World Trade […]