Articles by Grist staff

On With the No-Show

The environment has mostly been a no show in the presidential race, reports Grist’s boy on the bus, writing this morning from New Hampshire, where the nation’s first primary will be held tomorrow. The race has been unusually substantive, with banter on a host of issues, but the environment hasn’t shared the limelight so far, […]

Cap'n Crunchy

Captain Climate, outfitted in a red cape and leotard, and his sidekick Boy Atmosphere have been trailing the presidential candidates around New Hampshire, trying to get them to explain what they plan to do about global warming. The Captain tells reporters he has time-traveled back from 2050 and a world nearly destroyed by climate change, […]

Frank Bean-Counters

The World Bank has admitted in a new internal report that its nine-year-old forest strategy has been a failure and that the bank has succeeded neither in protecting forests nor in helping the poor communities that depend on them. In 1991, the bank adopted a new strategy to deflect criticism that its activities were abetting […]

Salmon in Hot Water

Canada’s largest salmon fishery, on the Fraser River, could become the first tangible casualty of climate change, according to a new report prepared for the Canadian government by a group of scientists, academics, and bureaucrats. Temperatures in the Fraser River have been gradually rising for years, and if temperatures rise even a degree or two […]