Articles by Grist staff

Jamie Lennox, Alliance for the Wild Rockies

Jamie Lennox is membership coordinator for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and a board member of the Wild Rockies Legislative Action Fund. He previously worked for the Missoula Independent, a weekly newspaper. He lives in Missoula, Mont. Monday, 2 Aug 1999 MISSOULA, Mont. Today, I am pondering wilderness. I write and rewrite about my […]

Bright Lights, Big Donations

GOP presidential hopeful George W. Bush is winning over big business with help from a college chum, Thomas Kuhn, head of the Edison Electric Institute, an electric utility trade group. Trade associations have traditionally kept quiet during presidential nomination battles, but this year they are speaking out early and declaring their allegiance to Bush. Lobbyists […]

I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Rainforests

A thick, hazy smog caused by the burning of rainforests in Indonesia is spreading across Southeast Asia this week, reminiscent of the 1997 smog that caused rampant health problems and that cost Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia some $4 billion. Satellite pictures show that most of the fires have been started by owners of Indonesian plantations, […]

A Hot New Trend

The hot, dry weather that is now plaguing much of the U.S., and which has killed 182 people, appears to extend what federal scientists say is a trend toward more extreme summer temperatures since World War II. While most scientists are hesitant to attribute any individual heat wave to global warming, some note that the […]