Articles by Grist staff

It's high time people stopped shooting mountain lions

V It’s legal to kill a mountain lion in most Western states if it threatens your safety or the safety of your property (including livestock and pets). Williams thus had the legal right to kill that lion. But did she have the moral right? My, what a big kitty. Photo: Predator Defense Institute. One of […]

Zed, last of his species, in "Big Weenie Politics"

One Little, Two Little, One Billion Little Indians

India’s population is expected to hit 1 billion tomorrow, making it the second country to pass that mark. China, which now has an estimated 1.3 billion citizens, was the first. Although India had the first official family-planning program in the developing world, the nation is still growing by 15 million people a year. Half of […]

Phnom-enally Bad

Uncontrolled logging is destroying Cambodia’s forests, fueled by greed, corruption, and incompetence, according to a report released yesterday by the Asian Development Bank. The bank recommended that the Cambodian government cancel a number of logging contracts, and the government seems open to the idea. Environmentalists have been warning for years that rampant logging and government […]