Articles by Grist staff

Readers sound off on manipulated science, Sierra Club electioneering, and more

  Back to School, Craig Re: Craig’s List Dear Editor: Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson claims that abuse of science is one of the most “misbegotten” criticisms of the Bush administration. In the same Grist interview, he illustrated just how the administration commits such abuses. In defense of the administration’s use of science, Manson argues […]

Dispatch from a contentious meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board

Will Fantle is director of research for the Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to the fight for economic justice for the family-scale farming community. The group’s Organic Integrity Project acts as a corporate watchdog monitoring the credibility of organic farming methods and the food it produces. Today, he’s at a meeting of the USDA’s National […]

Sink-o de Mayo

Water Troubles Cause Mexico City to Sink Mexico City is sinking — in some areas, by as much as a foot a year, and altogether by about 30 feet over the past century. The sprawling, smoggy metropolis — more than double the size of greater London — has been depleting the aquifer on which it […]

Take It Wheezy

Climate Change Contributes to Asthma in Poor Preschoolers Poor and minority preschool children in U.S. inner cities are among the first people suffering adverse effects from global warming. According to a study released yesterday by Harvard researchers, climate change is among the primary causes of a growing epidemic of asthma in the Western world. Asthma […]