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Dry Upheaval

As if Colombia needs any more bad news: The war-torn nation’s water supply could be reduced by as much as 40 percent over the next 50 years due to deforestation […]

Dave Hadden, Montana Wilderness Association

Dave Hadden is coordinator of the Montana Wilderness Association‘s Transboundary Organizing Project, which works to link wildland conservation across the U.S. – Canada boundary in the Crown of the Continent […]

G-ratify-ing News

It’s official: All 15 nations of the European Union have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, solidifying their commitment to combat climate change and highlighting the difference between European and U.S. environmental […]

Environmental Procrastination Agency?

Health and environmental organizations in eight Southeastern states announced yesterday that they would sue the U.S. EPA for “dragging its feet” in implementing a strict air-quality standard established five years […]

Time to Get ExxonMobilized

ExxonMobil, long a target of progressive activists for its appalling environmental and human rights record, is now catching flak from more mainstream critics as well. In an unusual move, shareholder […]

Dead Bird Flying

Upon hearing reports of his own demise, Mark Twain famously retorted that rumors of his death had been greatly exaggerated. The same could be said of the golden-crowned manakin, a […]

Dreading Water

Industrial pollution in U.S. and Canadian lakes, rivers, and streams rose 26 percent from 1995 to 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the North American Commission for Environmental […]

Is This the Place?

Tooele County, Utah, is already the hazardous heartland of the United States — the place where the Army tests anthrax and other chemical, nerve, and biological agents, and incinerates half […]

Marsh-a-Marsh-a-Marsh-a

An agricultural company has agreed to sell 16,500 acres of salt ponds around the San Francisco Bay, paving the way for what could be the nation’s biggest wetlands restoration project […]

He’s Madsen and He’s Not Going to Take It Anymore

In yesterday’s edition of the Daily Grist, we reported on the problem of international environmental crime. Today we’re reporting on a guy who thinks he’s got the solution. Frank Madsen, […]