Articles by Grist staff

Chile Peppered

As Chile makes a push to increase its produce exports, the country has begun to use more chemicals on farms, a trend that public health workers say has put farm workers at greater risk of skin disease, miscarriages, sterility, and cancer. A 1998 study in the region where 60 percent of Chile’s pesticides are used […]

Lodge, a Complaint

A federal judge in Idaho yesterday blocked former President Clinton’s plan to ban road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national forestland. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ruled in favor of the state of Idaho and timber giant Boise Cascade and said that if the plan went into effect tomorrow, as had been scheduled, […]

Seven Brydes for Seven Samurai

Japanese whaling ships set sail yesterday to hunt for minke, Bryde’s, and sperm whales. Whaling ships earlier this year brought home 440 minke whales, but the second hunt will be more controversial because Bryde’s and sperm whales are thought to be more endangered. When a similar hunt occurred last year the Clinton administration threatened Japan […]

The Emperor Strikes Out

Emperor penguins have been dying as global temperatures have risen, according to a study by French scientists published yesterday in the journal Nature. From 1952 until 1975, the penguin population near a French Antarctic base held steady around 6,000, but in the late 1970s, the number dropped to 3,000, where it has since stabilized. The […]