Articles by Grist staff

Rumblings in the Bronx

A virtual walking tour of the South Bronx New York’s South Bronx was once a getaway for the rich; now the defining landmarks of the community are power plants, landfills, and parking lots. Where some might see hopelessness, though, resident Omar Freilla sees opportunity. Freilla founded Green Worker Cooperatives to salvage reusable materials from trash […]

Save the Life of My Child

Organic diet causes pesticide levels to plummet in children, study finds If you needed that extra nudge to start feeding your kids organic grub, here it is: In a recent U.S. EPA-funded study, 23 Seattle-area youngsters were switched to an all-organic diet, and the levels of pesticides in their bodies declined to essentially zero after […]

APRIL, Come Around She Will

Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia Maybe we can all just get along. A landmark deal between a logging company and an environmental group could double the size of a designated national park in the Tesso Nilo rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the site of years of conflict between conservationists and timber […]

Utahward Bound

NRC approves nuke-waste dump on Utah Indian reservation This week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed the nation’s largest — and only private — radioactive-waste storage facility, to be located on the (prophetically named?) Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah. It’s a major win for the nuclear industry, which desperately needs a dump site for spent […]