Articles by Grist staff

Hungary for Some Boar

Croatia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are embarking on an ambitious project to create a cross-border nature preserve of at least 250,000 acres at the confluence of the Danube and Drava rivers, Central Europe’s largest wetland. Hungary and Croatia will sign a cooperation agreement today, and unofficial talks are underway with Yugoslav biologists and ecologists. The area […]

Who Ya Gonna Call? Trust Busters!

Monsanto was hit with a class-action lawsuit yesterday, brought by a coalition of small farmers and farm groups that accuse the company of rushing genetically modified seeds to the marketplace without properly testing them for safety and giving farmers false guarantees about the marketability of genetically modified crops. The suit, filed by some of the […]

Killmore Trout?

The National Marine Fisheries Service wants to give state and local governments the lead role in protecting threatened salmon and steelhead trout in the Northwest and Northern California, a major policy shift that comes as part of federal regulations released this week. To avoid having to expand the federal bureaucracy to protect 14 populations of […]

Meow!

In what researchers are saying could be a big advance for endangered species, a house cat gave birth three weeks ago to a rare African wildcat. Scientists at the Audubon Institute Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans said that they had transferred a frozen embryo between species, and that the house cat, […]