Articles by Grist staff

Going Apes

Great Apes Are Heading for Extinction Human beings’ endless efforts to kill each other have not reduced their overall numbers, but they may yet wipe out humanity’s closest genetic cousins, the great apes: gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans. Several of these charismatic — but apparently not charismatic enough — megafauna face extinction because of human […]

List Me Baby, One More Time

Group Petitions for Protection of Hundreds of Imperiled U.S. Species A coalition of enviro groups, scientists, and artists petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday to add 225 species to the official federal list of endangered and threatened species. The 225 are now on a candidate list that affords them no protection. It was, […]

Self Empowerment

California Businesses Hop on the Fuel-Cell Bandwagon A number of California businesses — rattled by the 2000 energy crisis, with its rolling black- and brown-outs, and the state’s generally unreliable electricity grid — are turning to hydrogen fuel cells to provide a reliable and self-generated source of power. The move is fueled (ahem) by the […]

The Lead Badge of Courage

Vermont Senator Proposes Stricter Drinking-Water Legislation Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt.) announced this week that he will introduce legislation that aims to eliminate lead from the nation’s drinking water. The Lead-Free Drinking Water Act, the first major proposed revision of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 14 years, would ban plumbing fixtures with more than 0.02 […]