Articles by Grist staff

The Chipping News

Organic Snack Foods on the Rise One of the fastest growing segments of the $23 billion organic foods industry — faster than produce or dairy products — is snack food: chips, candy, nutrition bars, and the like, sales of which grew by almost 30 percent last year. If that strikes you as odd, you will […]

Kids Rocked

Enviro Problems Cause One-Third of Child Deaths in Europe Environmental hazards are responsible for a third of all child deaths — some 100,000 a year — in the 52 countries of the European region, according to a new study. Published by World Health Organization researchers in the medical journal The Lancet, the study audited the […]

Forgive Me, Father, for I Have Wind

The Main Objections to Wind Farms The political — and in some places legal — pressure to move to renewable energy is raising the profile of wind energy and the wind farms and wind turbines that generate it. In locales from India to the U.K., groups have agitated against wind farms for a variety of […]

Stretch Pants on Fire

House Rejects Snowmobile Ban, Again Snowmobile news! Here at Grist, we can’t get enough of it. Thursday brought a 224-198 vote in the House of Representatives rejecting a measure — an amendment to the Interior Department’s fiscal year 2005 spending bill — that would have banned snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. The […]