Articles by Grist staff

Bump in the Logging

A federal judge in Illinois has issued a nationwide ban on all timber sales that were approved during the past year without public input and environmental analysis. The decision, handed down on Friday, may delay or halt logging on more than 110,000 acres of national forest land. The judge ruled that the U.S. Forest Service’s […]

Flashbacks From Bad Acid Trip

Environmental regulations in North America have succeeded in cutting acid rain, but many North American lakes and streams damaged by the phenomenon still have not recovered, according to new research published today in the journal Nature. In contrast, the study, which was conducted by 23 prominent scientists, found that lakes and streams in Europe have […]

Kick Some Asthma

Smog in the eastern half of the U.S. sends some 53,000 people to the hospital and 159,000 to the emergency room each summer, and it triggers more than 6 million asthma attacks, according to a new study released by three environmental groups. The Clean Air Task Force, National Environmental Trust, and U.S. Public Interest Research […]

Couch Potatoes Getting Baked

Three environmental groups today are launching an $11 million-dollar “public education” campaign in the U.S. about the health dangers and physical costs of climate change, with the aim of putting the environment on voters’ minds before the 2000 elections and putting the heat on Congress for its lack of action on the issue. The groups […]