Articles by Grist staff

Cherignoble

Sixteen years ago today, a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded, resulting in the worst atomic accident in the history of the world. The explosion affected 3.3 million Ukrainians as well as untold numbers of other people, and sent a radioactive cloud drifting over much of Europe. All of the area within 18 miles of the […]

Bad Air Day

As if California didn’t have enough of a smog problem all by itself, now it and other parts of the nation are suffering from air pollution blown in from China. Toxic pollutants from power plants, factories, and farms travel on wind currents across the ocean and mingle with our own less-than-perfect air to create an […]

Froggy Went a Coughin’ and He Did Die, Mm-hmm

Category: More Bad News About Frogs. Those amphibian-lovers who were dismayed to learn last week that frogs and their fellow kind are being rendered hermaphroditic and otherwise sexually odd by exposure to herbicides will be even more disheartened by the news that trace amounts of DDT and other pesticides administered in lab tests caused near-total […]

Quick Draw, McGraw

A tiff has broken out between the Department of Interior and the U.S. EPA over proposed gas drilling in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. The energy industry would like to drill more than 39,000 new wells in the area, a plan enthusiastically backed by the Bush administration, especially in the wake of its defeat over oil […]