Articles by Grist staff

Getting Their Just Deserts

A U.S. federal judge approved an agreement on Tuesday between environmentalists and the federal government to expand protections for wildlife on more than 11 million acres of the California Desert Conservation Area. The agreement, which brings an end to a lawsuit filed by three environmental groups, requires the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to close […]

No Nukeskys!

Enviros claimed a victory yesterday as the Russian parliament postponed a vote on allowing imports of spent nuclear fuel into the country for reprocessing. Backers of the measure, including the Russian government and U.S. business interests, say the country would gain a huge revenue source, some $20 billion over the next decade, if it opened […]

Turning Over a NewLeaf

The biotech giant Monsanto confirmed accounts this week that it will shelve its first genetically modified crop and stop selling the six-year-old NewLeaf potato to farmers in the U.S. and Canada. The potato, which contains a gene that produces a toxin to repel the Colorado potato beetle, was unable to capture more than 5 percent […]

Let Them Drink Coke

More than 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water and 3.4 million die each year from diseases linked to water contamination, according to the World Health Organization. In a report timed for U.N. World Water Day today (mark your calendar for next year), the WHO said it had registered no improvement in the […]