Articles by Grist staff

It’s All Sarovar

After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project One of the world’s longest-running social and environmental campaigns is sleeping with the fishes as of Sunday, when the last bucket of concrete was poured on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Indian state of Gujarat. The project, initiated nearly 20 years ago, diverts India’s fifth-largest […]

Mercury Retrograde

U.S. DOE backs off plan to sell neurotoxin to rest of world Caving in to critics and maybe, just maybe, its own conscience, the U.S. Department of Energy has decided against selling off nearly 1,300 tons of mercury left from pre-1960s weapons production. Though the neurotoxin brings a quick buck on the world market — […]

But Will They Wear Poodle Skirts?

International Polar Year returns, focuses on climate-change research Happy International Polar Year! If you didn’t get us a gift yet, don’t sweat it — the fourth-ever IPY doesn’t officially kick off until March, and researchers from some 60 countries will actually poke around in the icy Arctic and Antarctic for two years. The last IPY […]

The film will explore the conflicts between the fishing industry and the environment

Ahoy mateys, and a happy new year to ye. I celebrated me holidays with some good booty — givin’ and receivin’ — and some pirate-style parrrtying. Here’s hopin’ ye did the same. And now that we be recovered from our rum-induced stupor, I’ve got news of an oceans-related documentary airing on PBS tonight. Part of […]