Articles by Grist staff

The Not-So-Great Migration?

The migration of tens of thousands of Brazilians from the Amazon rainforest to cities has lessened one environmental crisis but created other serious problems. Now fewer farmers are tearing down swathes of forest to open up new agricultural land, but cities in the Amazon region have been overwhelmed by the influx of new people. A […]

Higher prices at the pumps are a good thing — really

That whining sound you hear is American consumers (formerly known as American citizens) fretting over the rising cost of gasoline. Pump and circumstance. The current national average price of gas — $1.41 per gallon — is a full 25 cents higher than it was merely four months ago, and analysts predict that the price could […]

Zed, last of his species, in "Smooth Operator"

Tannen-bomb

Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) has launched “Project Evergreen,” an effort to assemble a list of anti-environmental initiatives that a new Republican president could undertake without congressional approval. Last week he wrote to conservative think tankers, industry folks, and others, asking for help in thinking up “executive orders and rule changes that a new president […]