Articles by Grist staff

Life's a Beach and Then You Die

Fourteen whales beached themselves and eight of them died soon after the Navy conducted sonar exercises off the northern Bahamas on March 15. The Navy said yesterday that there was no evidence to link the whale deaths to its sonar tests, but enviros called for the suspension of the exercises. Marine biologist Ken Balcomb of […]

Jet Blacklist

The National Park Service announced yesterday that next month it will begin banning Jet Skis and other personal motorized watercraft in 66 national parks, seashores, and recreation areas. But the machines will still be allowed in 10 national recreation areas where they are heavily used; 11 other areas will have two years to phase them […]

Au-Burned

In what may be the final chapter of one of California’s longest and most bitter water battles, the federal government this week bowed to pressure from state officials and all but dropped plans to build the massive Auburn Dam on the American River in Northern California. The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it will abandon […]

Cool, Cats!

After 10 years of litigation and delays, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finally listed the Canadian lynx as a threatened species in the lower 48 states under the federal Endangered Species Act. The elusive cats are found in 14 states across the continental U.S., predominately on federal forest lands. Wildlife officials hope they […]