Articles by Grist staff

Rick Durden, green pilot and head of LightHawk, answers questionsRick Durden, green pilot and head o

Rick Durden. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I have recently become the executive director of LightHawk, sometimes referred to as “the wings of conservation.” What does your organization do? We work with other environmental and conservation organizations to provide free flights over environmentally threatened areas in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Central America. […]

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 […]