Articles by Grist staff

Dick, Get Yer Gun!

Bald eagle may soon leave the Endangered Species List Remember when John Ashcroft sang that hymn he wrote, “Let the Eagle Soar”? That was something, wasn’t it? Anyhoo! Speaking of the bald eagle, it may soon leave the Endangered Species List, thanks to its strong recovery in parts of the U.S. In an unusual joint […]

Last run

I ran into an interesting news bit this morning while perusing the headlines. Actually, I didn't run. Not much of a runner, me. But I hear it's a great way to get healthy. Does wonders for the heart and the lungs and that fat roll hanging over your jeans (you know what I'm talking about). And marathon runners? You gotta admire them. Imagine how healthy those lungs are after running 26.2 miles! Unless, of course, you run those 26.2 miles in Hong Kong on a day with very high air pollution levels and then die. Yeah, not so much with the healthy, then.

Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes

Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Monday, 13 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel A Moldovan, two Bulgarians, and three Canadians walk into the desert. It’s like the start of a bad joke, but this […]

A virtual walking tour of Columbia, Miss.

Activist and evangelist Charlotte Keys founded Jesus People Against Pollution to help clean up her hometown of Columbia, Miss., site of a now-shuttered plant where Reichhold Chemical once manufactured Agent Orange. The company shut the factory down after an explosion in 1977 and abandoned or buried thousands of barrels of toxic waste near the water supply of the predominantly poor, African-American neighborhood where it had operated; flooding and leaks followed. In this virtual walking tour, Keys describes life near the plant and her fight to win justice for her community.