Articles by Grist staff

National Park and Ride

Yosemite National Park in California would be returned to a more wild, less developed, condition under a plan outlined yesterday by Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. The plan — which follows 20 years of battles over the future of the park and is now open to public comment — would scale back parking and remove some […]

No Way — You Must Be Lion

In an experiment that could herald the future of endangered species preservation efforts, lions this year may give birth to endangered Bengal tigers. A team of scientists, led by Betsy Dresser of the University of New Orleans, has frozen about 170 tiger embryos and plans to implant them in lionesses within the next eight weeks. […]

Gold Smith?

In a move that heartens enviros, Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.), the new chair of the Senate Environment Committee, has come out against legislative riders, which have been used to undermine environmental protections in recent years. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), Smith wrote that he intends to oppose most environmental riders, […]

Boston Baked Genes

An estimated 2,500 protestors marched peaceably through Boston streets yesterday in what organizers called the biggest demonstration in the U.S. against genetically modified (GM) foods. Protestors — many dressed as mutant creatures, macabre vegetables, and mad scientists — were making their voices heard during the largest biotechnology conference ever held in the U.S., which has […]