Articles by Grist staff

Ape of Good Hope

King Kong director campaigns to save wild gorillas The original 1933 King Kong gave gorillas a bad rep and inspired an upsurge in gorilla hunting, but the director of the 2005 remake hopes to use his blockbuster’s appeal to help keep the apes from going extinct. Peter Jackson is backing efforts by the International Gorilla […]

You Be Spillin’

China faces two more toxic river crises Two new toxic spills have hit rivers in central China. Last week, cadmium seeped out of silt dredged in a cleanup effort on the industrialized Xiangjiang River, contaminating a 60-odd mile stretch of the waterway, and a broken pipe at a power plant dumped six tons of diesel […]

Forest Trump

Judge halts more than 140 Northwest timber sales to protect rare species U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman has reinstated the “look before logging” rule on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest — abolished in 2004 by the Bush administration — and ordered a halt to 144 timber sales in California, Oregon, and Washington that might […]

Been There, Bumped That

Whaling and protest ships collide in Antarctic waters Japanese officials are claiming that a Greenpeace ship intentionally hit a whaling ship in the Southern Ocean on Sunday. But crewmembers of the protest vessel say the whaler rammed their smaller ship, and they’ve posted video of the incident on the Greenpeace blog. The collision left a […]