Articles by Grist staff

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn's Trash

The massive Fresh Kills landfill, where New York City has dumped its garbage for 60 years, will be shut down two years from now, and city officials are already daydreaming about making the land into a large city park. The city’s sanitation department has hired Steven Handel, a plant ecologist at Rutgers University, to study […]

Sleazy Money

Each of the leading presidential contenders has done favors for campaign contributors, often compromising the environment in the process, according to a new report conducted by the Center for Public Integrity. Bill Bradley has drawn hefty campaign contributions from the chemical industry and introduced numerous bills that eliminate tariffs on certain highly toxic pesticides, the […]

Baja Humbug

A proposal for a huge tourist resort in Baja California, Mexico, has sharply divided the rural community of San Quintin Valley, with some residents eager for the thousands of new jobs the resort could create and others anxious over the ecological destruction it could cause. The $700 million-plus resort, proposed by a group of investors […]

Feeling Sheepish

Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep gained endangered status Monday, eight months after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had given the species a temporary, emergency listing. An estimated 125 bighorns remain in the 400-mile-long Sierra Nevada range, less than half the population of 15 years ago. The bighorn herds have been devastated by hunting, domestic sheep […]