Articles by Grist staff

Nativity Seen

The U.S. is home to more than 200,000 native species of plants, animals, and other wild things, at least twice as many as previously thought, according to a new Nature Conservancy study, the most comprehensive look at biodiversity ever undertaken in the nation. As many as a third of the species are imperiled to some […]

Congrats, Big Three — You Didn't Come in Absolutely Last!

Vehicles produced by U.S. automakers rank as nearly the worst polluters on the road, behind only Isuzu models in a new study of 11 automakers by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The study looked at fuel economy, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions from the 1998 models each auto company sold in the U.S. For […]

Tapiring Off

Illegal logging is threatening Honduras’s Platano River Biosphere Reserve and other tropical forests that are integral parts of a biological corridor that winds through Central America from Mexico to Panama. The U.N. has provided funding for protection of the biosphere reserve since 1971, but logging companies continue to chop down trees illegally and poor farmers […]

Fine Then, We Quit Too

Enviros are rejoicing after General Motors announced yesterday that it is quitting the Global Climate Coalition, an industry lobbying group that has denied the reality of climate change and fought against efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. GM is the latest in a long line of deserters, including Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler, British Petroleum, Royal […]