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No Kidding

Combating environmental hazards has helped improve children’s health, according to a new report by the White House and the U.S. EPA. The report, which is scheduled to be released shortly, found that childhood lead poisoning and children’s exposure to second-hand smoke have both declined, largely due to targeted campaigns. However, the remaining cases of lead […]

And other words from readers

  Re: Hydra-gen Dear Editor: If you truly would like to see a hydrogen-based economy in your lifetime, then you should embrace President Bush’s plan like your favorite teddy bear. Do not deride the plan because it focuses on using fossil fuels to produce the hydrogen, thereby creating pollution and greenhouse gases and negating the […]

Brent Fenty, Oregon Natural Desert Association

Brent Fenty is the wildlands coordinator for the Oregon Natural Desert Association, an organization that has worked for over a decade to protect, defend, and restore Oregon’s native deserts. Monday, 17 Feb 2003 BEND, Ore. I am practicing my Monday morning ritual. After taking my dog, Kenai, out to run in a nearby field, I […]

Lewis This Is Clark, Clark This Is Lewis

Say goodbye to the bar scene. Rip up those personal ads. If you live in California and are looking for a sweetheart this Valentine’s Day, look no further than — the Sierra Club. Sierra Singles, a branch of the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the national organization, is not just an environmental group; it’s also […]

Above the Bar

Great Britain may soon use DNA bar codes to make it easy to spot genetically modified (GM) foods. The technology, developed by the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, would help regulators quickly spot foods or crops contaminated with GM organisms. The British government is weighing the possibility of requiring biotech companies to use […]

Terror Alert Level: Green

New York City is on high terrorist alert. The entire nation is on tenterhooks. And at California State University at Fresno, security was heavy — for an academic environmental conference. The reason? The conference addressed “revolutionary environmentalism” and participants included former members of militant environmental and animal-rights organizations that have been linked to fire-bombings, vandalism, […]

President’s Day Sail

In honor of Presidents’ Day (uh, that’s celebrating presidents past, not present), Grist will not be publishing on Monday. Have a great long weekend; we’ll be back Tuesday.

Nuts!

For the first time, scientists believe they have found an instance of climate change causing a species to alter its genetic makeup — not just its behavior. To date, species changes stemming from climate change have all been behavioral, such as animals shifting their migration patterns. But after studying the DNA and mating habits of […]

Kodak Moments

Environmentalists have many tools for looking after Momma Earth — and now, in remote villages in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, one of them is a Kodak camera. Through a project designed and funded by the Nature Conservancy, about 100 people in the region have been given cameras and training to help them take […]

Whatlands?

In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standard to determine which of the nations’ bodies of water deserve protection, calling it overly broad. But the high court didn’t say what the standard should be, an issue the corps has been struggling to resolve ever since. Now, the dilemma […]