Articles by Grist staff

Once More Into the Bleach

The highest sea temperatures ever recorded in the Caribbean have caused the first mass die-off of coral in Belize in 3,000 years, and scientists suspect that global warming and the El Ni&ntildeo weather phenomenon are to blame. The high temperatures in 1998 lasted for several months and caused much of the Belizean coral reef to […]

Delay of the Land

More than 100 enviro groups yesterday petitioned the Clinton-Gore administration to temporarily prevent development on 160 million acres of roadless federal areas in the West managed by the Bureau of Land Management. They are asking the BLM to reinventory the land to determine how much should be protected as wilderness, contending that past BLM inventories […]

No Problem Atoll

The Nature Conservancy unveiled an agreement yesterday under which it will raise $37 million to purchase and maintain the Palmyra Atoll, a privately owned cluster of pristine coral islets about 1,000 miles south of Hawaii. The conservancy wants to create a nature preserve for marine and climate research and allow limited, ecologically sound tourism on […]

Logging on the Skids

After nine years of political battles and scientific studies, the U.S. Forest Service this week released a broad management plan for California’s Sierra Nevada range that would emphasize wildlife protection and recreation over commercial logging. The proposal for managing 11 million acres of national forests would cut cattle grazing, protect most big old-growth trees, and […]