Articles by Grist staff

Toxic Femmes

SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes’ case it goes beyond metrosexuality — we’re talking ovary tissue in the testes (ew). Researchers strongly suspect sewage laced with human-made hormone-disrupting chemicals. Two separate studies, one […]

Mercury Revising

New mercury plan from local regulators would be stronger than Bush’s Prompted by concerns that the Bush administration’s plan to battle mercury pollution wouldn’t do much to, uh, battle mercury pollution, two groups of state and local air-quality regulators (bet the parties rock at that convention) have crafted a stronger plan — and they say […]

The Good News Bears

Pandas seem to be recovering in the wild We’re not like those panda fetishists who flip out about the cute, cuddly black-and-white bears, with their snoogly faces and their roly-poly schnugum wugums … wait, where were we? Anyway, we’ve got some good news for panda fans: A recent census found almost 1,600 giant pandas in […]

The End of the End of the Affair

SUV sales regaining strength in the U.S. Showing characteristic signs of short-term memory loss, the American public is apparently renewing its love affair with the SUV. When gas prices spiked to over $3 a gallon following Hurricane Katrina, demand for hybrids was in the headlines and chatter about fuel-efficiency standards was all the rage. Now […]