Articles by Grist staff

Black Coffeyville

Oil spill adds agitation to tri-state flooding A 42,000-gallon oil spill in Kansas is complicating state and federal response to flooding that has walloped that state, Oklahoma, and Texas. Weeks of rain have forced evacuations and caused at least 11 deaths. On Sunday, workers at a Coffeyville, Kan., oil refinery began evacuation procedures, but a […]

Depends how you define green

On 7/7/07, climate change awareness will officially rock, as a series of concerts kick off at venues as far afield as Shanghai, Sydney, and the South Pole. Chatter about the Live Earth concerts has been rampant for months as bits of gossip trickled in here and there. Though organizers still promise a few surprises, much […]

Bald eagle soars off the threatened-species list, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: John Ashcroft, Where Are You? We Always Thought It Was Industrial Strength Barrier Methods Sure to Hit Fox News Soon Spit on Polish Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Postcard From the New Atlantis No (Hot) Dogs Allowed Ka-Boom 15 Green […]

Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sink

Wilderness is pretty much a thing of the past, says report Regardless of whether humankind was given dominion over the earth, we’ve most certainly taken it. A new report in Science calculates that only 17 percent of global land mass has been untainted by human dwellings, agriculture, or roads. And that was as of 1995; […]