Articles by Grist staff

Oh Riley?

West’s Water Woes Put Spotlight on Bush Water Czar When the Bush administration appointed Bennett Riley to oversee both the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Reclamation, environmentalists feared the worst. Riley, a cowboy-turned-lawyer and longtime advocate for property rights and against government regulation, hardly seemed like an auspicious choice for water czar. But […]

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 […]