Articles by Grist staff

Petro-fying News

Enviros and Amazon natives fear that oil drilling in Ecuador may soon escalate dramatically. Ecuador last month replaced the national currency with the U.S. dollar in an attempt to pull the country out of an economic crisis, and that means the economy will need a big injection of dollars, which the government may try to […]

Hot Dam

Fishing guides, Indian tribes, biologists, and environmentalists showed up in force at a public hearing yesterday in Portland, Ore., to tell federal authorities that they want four dams on the lower Snake River in southeastern Washington to be breached to save salmon runs from extinction. A caravan of about 80 trucks hauling fishing boats and […]

Double, Double for Forest Trouble

The Clinton administration today will announce a proposal to nearly double federal spending for protection of the world’s tropical rainforests to $150 million. Much of the money would be used to help more than 60 nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America strengthen their own efforts to fight excessive logging and illegal burning of forests. […]

Get Along, Little Doggies

The Clinton administration acknowledged yesterday that the black-tailed prairie dog should be listed as a threatened species, but stopped short of granting it protection under the Endangered Species Act. Such protection would have imposed restrictions on developers and ranchers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said that it is dealing with a backlog of other […]