Articles by Grist staff

Greens Against Genes

Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other enviro and public interest groups are trekking to Montreal, Canada, planning to raise their voices against genetic engineering as U.N. talks on the issue start Monday. Representatives of 134 nations will convene to discuss a proposed Biosafety Protocol, which is intended to establish rules for the international movement […]

Slackers

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, following its usual pattern, recently missed two deadlines for deciding whether species should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, and enviros are taking the agency to task. In a move that could lead to a marked decline in logging in Northern California, the Environmental Protection Information Center filed […]

Bradley Nets a New Endorsement

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) on Wednesday endorsed Bill Bradley for the Democratic presidential nomination, accusing Al Gore and the Clinton administration of having “taken a hike” on restoring Northwest salmon runs. Kitzhaber, the first governor to formally back Bradley, says the feds need to stop delaying their deliberations on whether four Snake River dams […]

Huge Tracts of Land

A number of U.S. enviro groups are pushing plans to preserve and restore vast stretches of land in an effort to combat the “islandization” of wildlife habitat, or the fragmentation of natural land that makes it difficult for creatures to survive and ecosystems to properly function. The Wildlands Project, based in Tucson, Ariz., is at […]