Articles by Grist staff

The Coast in the Machine

Bush Pushes for Offshore Oil Drilling in Alaska The Bush administration is moving aggressively to open Alaska’s coastal waters to oil exploration — a campaign that is not getting nearly as much public scrutiny as efforts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The administration plans to offer eight oil and gas lease sales […]

Soilant Green

U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals If the orange foam caused by Canadian aquaculture isn’t enough to scare you away from farmed fish, how about the presence of malachite green, a fabric dye suspected to cause cancer, in Chilean farmed salmon? This year, European countries seized dozens of tons of farmed […]

Foam Call

Canadian Tribes Fight Big Fish Farms in Court Fish farms off Canada’s west coast are under fire from native tribes that claim the big aquaculture operations are devastating the natural environment. Four tribes living in the Broughton Archipelago, off the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island, are going to court to curb the […]

Holey Cow

Ozone Hole Approaches Record Size The ozone hole over Antarctica, which shrinks and expands with the seasons, is now larger than it’s ever been at this time of year — nearly 11 million square miles — and within the next few weeks it could set an all-time record for size, a leading scientist is warning. […]