Articles by Grist staff

Baked Alaska

The polar ice cap has thinned by 40 percent in the last 30 years, according to preliminary findings presented this week at a conference of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States. Other research presented at the conference documents how dramatic climate changes are making it difficult for Alaska natives to maintain subsistence lifestyles. […]

Revenge of the Nerds

A coalition of enviros and high-tech philanthropists in Washington state is launching a three-year campaign to raise at least $25 million in private donations and leverage at least $100 million in federal funds so the government can buy 75,000 acres of privately owned land in the state’s Cascade Mountains to create a wilderness corridor. Organizers […]

The Sweat of Our Brower

Pioneering environmental activist David Brower resigned from the board of the Sierra Club yesterday, complaining that the group has become too bureaucratic and its leadership has lost its sense of urgency. He accused the club’s board of inadequate action on such issues as wilderness protection and mass transit, and criticized it for refusing to take […]

Bush Whiffs on Another Enviro Issue

Weak environmental regulations in Texas have led to a big influx of industrial livestock operations that are hazards to public health and the environment, says a report issued yesterday by local offices of the Sierra Club and Consumers Union. Although other states have strengthened such regulations or even placed moratoriums on the construction of new […]