Articles by Grist staff

Pigs May Fly, Part I: Oil Company Embraces Truth (Sort Of)

Texaco yesterday became the first major U.S. oil company to defect from the Global Climate Coalition, a business group that denies the seriousness of climate change and opposes the Kyoto Protocol. Texaco explained that it wants to speak for itself on the issues of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, though it still does not […]

Super Salmon Not Super-Fly

A New Zealand aquaculture company last week dropped its test program for breeding genetically modified chinook salmon and said it will kill and bury all the experimental fish, in the wake of government and public concerns that the fish, some of which were deformed, could escape into the wild and breed with native strains. The […]

Ski Bummer

A fierce debate has cropped up in recent months over the White River National Forest in Colorado — not about logging but about recreation. The U.S. Forest Service has made a controversial proposal to limit recreational use of the forest, which is roughly the size of Delaware and home to some of the nation’s top […]

But Picnickers Get More Sunlight and Less Bird Doo-Doo

The Atlantic rainforest of northeastern Brazil, one of the world’s most species-rich tropical rainforests, is in serious trouble, according to an article by Brazilian scientists in the journal Nature. Ecological processes like seed dispersal and pollination are being disrupted and may lead to the extinction of 34 percent of the region’s tree species, said researcher […]