Articles by Grist staff

Trade in Those Mittens for Oven Mitts

January through March of this year was the warmest such three-month period in the U.S. during the past 106 years of record keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA Director James Baker said, “The scientists are now telling us they can’t explain what we have seen without including a significant part of […]

Won't You Be My Nader?

Friends of the Earth, which created a stir by endorsing Bill Bradley over Al Gore in the Democratic presidential primary, may shun Gore again in the general election and give its backing to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. FOE President Brent Blackwelder said yesterday that the group has been talking to Nader’s staff. Meanwhile, Nader […]

Tell Us Something We Don't Know

Yup, global warming is happening and humans seem to be to blame, according to an early draft of a long-awaited report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This new preliminary analysis by the IPCC, an international collaboration of top scientists sponsored by the U.N. and the World Meteorological Organization, comes to the same basic […]

Buddy, Can You Spare a Bear?

Canadian enviro groups are getting upset over a plan to remove a few dozen grizzly bears from British Columbia and reintroduce them to the Selway-Bitterroot wilderness of Idaho and Montana. This is just the latest effort to use Canadian wildlife to replenish depleted American populations; the U.S. government has already taken Canadian lynx and gray […]