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Haden Go Seek		30 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Haden Go Seek In a blow to environmentalists, a federal appeals court has overturned a ruling preventing the U.S. government from issuing permits to mountaintop-mining operations. The operations access coal seams by shearing off huge slabs of mountains; the increasingly common process has resulted in tons of rock and dirt being dumped into valleys and streams. Last ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Brown Mountain State?		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Brown Mountain State? The Green Mountain State is looking less and less green every day: Vermont environmentalists are increasingly concerned about the fate of the state under new Republican Gov. Jim Douglas. So far, Douglas has proposed an 8 percent cut in the Natural Resources Agency budget, pledged to reexamine a plan to protect lands in the Northeast Kingdom, and appointed business executives to key environmental ...
Topics: business, politics, Vermont, wildlife (all these topics)

Raging Kabul		29 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Raging Kabul Twenty years of war in Afghanistan have not only taken an appalling human toll; they've laid waste to the nation's environment, according to a survey just completed by the United Nations Environment Programme. The survey found that more than 50 percent of the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in the last quarter-century, and w ...
Topics: Afghanistan, energy, land degradation, renewable energy, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Succulent Temptations		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Succulent Temptations In an effort to conserve water, landscapers in Arizona have turned to the wild cacti of West Texas for decoration, creating an unsustainable demand that could imperil some species. According to a new report from the World Wildlife Fund, agaves and yuccas are being harvested from the Chihuahua Desert to feed a demand for drought ...
Topics: Arizona, climate, European Union, green living, renewable energy, Texas, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Calling in the Reserves		21 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Calling in the Reserves The debate over oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been in the limelight a lot lately -- but what about energy exploitation in the rest of the state? On Friday, the Bush administration released a report on the likely environmental impact of new dril ...
Topics: Alaska, Department of Interior, energy, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans, politics, US Geological Survey, US Navy, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		17 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange Since Sept. 11, the Bush administration has claimed that strict environmental laws are hindering oil and gas exploration in the West -- thereby compromising national security by forcing ongoing dependence on foreign energy sources. But a new federal study undermines that claim by showing that most oil and gas reserves on Western federal lands co ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, West, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Spotted Record		15 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Spotted Record Federal protections for the spotted owl and the marbled murrelet have been blamed by many in the anti-enviro camp for the collapse of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. Now, the Bush administration has announced that it will review those protections, as well as the designation of & ...
Topics: business, environmental justice, logging, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Thank God		13 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Thank God Environmentalism is getting a big boost from religious communities that increasingly see protecting the Earth as central to their theology, according to the Worldwatch Institute. In its annual "State of the World" report released late last week, Worldwatch found that religious organizations from all corners of the globe are urging their congregations to sav ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, green living, Indonesia, rainforests, Sierra Club, wildlife (all these topics)

Polar Bear Market		10 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Polar Bear Market The polar bear -- that pinnacle of megafauna adulation -- could disappear from the planet this century as a result of global warming, according to a top scientist. The Arctic-dwelling animal, which is the world's largest land predator, is thought to be particularly susceptible to climate change because it relies on floating sea ice to catch seals and hitch lifts from feeding grounds back to denning area ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Tuna Sandwiched		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Tuna Sandwiched Two former government scientists say their superiors shot down years' worth of research on the effects of tuna fishing on dolphin populations because the findings clashed with the policy aims of the Clinton and Bush administrations. Separate research conducted by Albert Myrick and Sarka Southern indicated that dolphins are exposed to dangerous levels of stress by the practice ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Tilting at Windmills Activists are split on a proposed wind project off Cape Cod	Amanda Griscom	19 Dec 2002	Powers That Be
Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where 30 or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth." "Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants ...
Topics: energy, grassroots activism, Massachusetts, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Rebel Without a Forest		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Rebel Without a Forest The state of Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico, is home to the last remaining stands of rainforest in the nation -- and also to almost half a million impoverished people, many of them living on the brink of starvation. In the past, the forest has been ravaged by monied interests, such as foreign companies looking to cut down the region's mahogany and cedar trees; now, the region's ...
Topics: Mexico, politics, population, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Half and Half		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Half and Half In the interest of living up to our reputation for providing the occasional sliver of cheery environmental news, Grist is pleased to report that notwithstanding rampant ecological degradation, nearly half of the land on Earth remains undeveloped and unpopulated, according to an international study released earlier this week. The study -- the most comprehensive such ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, Conservation International, land degradation, wildlife (all these topics)

Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost		04 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Caspian's Unfriendly Ghost The discovery of what may be one of the world's largest oil fields under the Caspian Sea near Atyrau, Kazakhstan, has western oil companies excited, but environmentalists deeply concerned. The field, estimated to contain about 40 billion barrels of oil, 10 billion of them recoverable, is being developed by a consortium including British Gas, ExxonMobil, S ...
Topics: air pollution, Caspian Sea, energy, health, Kazakhstan, West, wildlife (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest for the Stumps		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Can't See the Forest for the Stumps Here's something you probably weren't feeling very thankful for on Thursday: The Bush administration issued a proposal last week that would allow managers of the country's 155 national forests to approve logging and other commercial activities without thoroughly assessing the potential environmental damage that could result. The proposal would radically alter Clinton-era ru ...
Topics: logging, national forests, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Like Padre, Like Son		22 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Like Padre, Like Son With no public announcement, the Bush administration has given the go-ahead to two new natural gas wells in the Padre Island National Seashore, which boasts the nation's longest stretch of undeveloped beach and 11 endangered species. Oil and gas drilling have occurred in the Texas park before, but the rate of drilling dropped sharply in th ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, national parks, oceans, politics, Sierra Club, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Landscape Goat		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Landscape Goat There's no need to use big crews and machinery to control fires in the California hills -- just add goats. A park district in the Bay Area is using goats to munch away the brush and low-level vegetation that fuel fires in parklands. Not only are the goats sometimes cheaper, gentler, and more environmentally sensible than employing human crews for the job, but they're also more versatile in steep forest ...
Topics: California, land stewardship, wildlife (all these topics)

The Roof Is on Fire		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Roof Is on Fire By passing regulations to encourage developers to install green roofs, Portland, Ore., has become a pioneer in the growing worldwide ecoroof movement (what, you aren't a part of it yet?). Rooftops planted with vegetation such as ferns and wildflowers can reduce runoff after rainstorms by up to 90 percent and diminish a building's energy costs by 10 percent. The runoff reduction helps pre ...
Topics: green living, Oregon, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Cites for Sore Eyes		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, marine life, National Environmental Trust, wildlife (all these topics)

Sweet Child of Mine?		14 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Sweet Child of Mine? After forcing a mining operation to leave town in 1997, the 46 families of Junin, a remote village in northern Ecuador, decided to have a go at ecotourism to protect the rainforest around them -- and to earn a living. But now a growing number of the residents are questioning that choice. The paradise of orchids, hummingbirds, and jaguars is no consola ...
Topics: Ecuador, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, rainforests, travel, wildlife (all these topics)

Better Red Than Dead		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Better Red Than Dead A federal judge last week lifted development restrictions on more than 4 million acres of land that had been designated as critical habitat for the threatened California red-legged frog. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imposed the restrictions in early 2001, but developers quickly sued to overturn them. To the dismay of environmentalists, the court ruling last week gave formal appr ...
Topics: California, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Uplifting News		11 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Uplifting News If only Bob Dole had known, he could have raked in some environmental brownie points while touting Viagra as a wonder cure for erectile dysfunction: The little blue pill could be the saving grace for thousands of endangered animals, according to research published recently in the journal Environmental Conservation. Tigers, reindeer, and harp seals, among other endangered animals, have been hunted for thousands o ...
Topics: Asia, green living, wildlife (all these topics)

Botanically Correct A new language is needed to win the day for native species	Kim Todd	06 Nov 2002	Soapbox
This cold morning at the Presidio, elegant terns wheel over the lagoon at the edge of the San Francisco Bay, screeching like a fleet of squeaky bicycles. In the distance, fog blots out the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. On the strip of beach closest to the water, dogs chase tennis balls into the surf. And in restored sand dunes, volunteers yank non-native plants and pile them in trash bags. Aro ...
Topics: California, San Francisco, wildlife (all these topics)

Tally Ho!		05 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Tally Ho! Prodded by donors, the Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and other groups are working to create accounting standards (both financial and biological) to measure the success of conservation projects. "There's no industry standard, no Dow Jones," said M. A. Sanjayan, a scientist who is leading the conservancy effort. Some $120 billion is spent each year in the United States on protecting ecosy ...
Topics: business, Nature Conservancy, wildlife (all these topics)

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