Articles by Grist staff

Eerie Canal

A quarter-century after becoming the nation’s most infamous toxic dump, upstate New York’s Love Canal is gradually being repopulated. Used for years as a dumping grounds for Hooker Chemical (later Occidental Chemical), Love Canal was eventually sold to the city of Niagara Falls, which built a school on top of it. Residents began reporting high […]

Crop Circles

A much-anticipated review by the British government of genetically modified (GM) crops has found that they are safe to consume but pose a serious threat to the environment. The 300-page report, produced by a panel of 24 scientists and policy advisors, is by far the most exhaustive study of GM crops to date. To the […]

Contempt of Corps

A federal judge held the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in contempt of court yesterday for failing to lower water levels in the Missouri River to protect endangered species. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the Corps and the secretary of the Army to reduce water levels in the river as part […]

Seasick

Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, Central Asia’s Aral Sea is drying up rapidly and is likely to all but disappear in as few as 15 years, according to a new study by Moscow’s Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Since the 1960s, the sea has been depleted by the damming of the main […]