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Parks in Reverse

National Parks Face Deterioration, Budget Shortfalls U.S. national parks are falling into serious disrepair, facing massive funding shortfalls, and being pushed to reduce services, even as another summer tourist season […]

Kenaf Already!

As Paper Use Rises, So Do Environmental Woes Remember when computers first became popular and we were told the “paperless office” was just around the corner? Turns out a company’s […]

Haiku Enough for Ya?

Our Haiku Hullabaloo fundraiser elicited hundreds of poems from creative Grist fans. We whittled the submissions down to a top 11 contenders, through a semi-scientific process involving repeated syllable counting, […]

Tirana-saurus Wrecks

Albanian Capital Faces Air-Pollution Crisis You may never have heard of Tirana, the capital city of Albania, but it falls not far behind Beijing and New Delhi on the list […]

Weapons of Mass. Reduction

Massachusetts Unveils Nation’s Most Stringent Mercury-Emissions Rules Today Massachusetts announced the nation’s most restrictive regs on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, putting the state way ahead of the Bush […]

Crop Busting

Monsanto Wins Landmark Biotech Case Against Canadian Farmer The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled in favor of biotech giant Monsanto in a case widely thought to be pivotal for the […]

Open-source Agriculture

Smart Breeding Holds Promise of Replacing GM Foods Imagine a technology that can produce all the benefits of biotech crops — resistance to pests and pesticides, long shelf life, rapid […]

Audit, Shucks

U.S. Nuclear Contractors Underreporting Worker Injuries Government contractors have underreported injuries and illnesses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation and other nuclear cleanup projects for years, creating a false image of safety […]

You Want Fries With That?

High Gas Prices Increase Popularity of Biofuel Many enviros have been bonkers for biofuel for years — trust us, we have the letters to prove it. But with gas prices […]

An eco-focused artist and educator answers questions

What work do you do? I am an artist, art teacher, art therapist, and writer, all dealing with a concern for the fate of the earth. I am a contributing […]