Articles by Grist staff

In Hot Water

Radioactivity in waterways near a top-secret nuclear weapons complex in Siberia is higher than what would be released from 10,000 commercial nuclear reactors, making it the worst nuclear river contamination ever uncovered, U.S. and Russian watchdog groups announced this week. Between 1955 and 1967, the Soviet Union commissioned five nuclear reactors at the Siberian Chemical […]

Rain of Terror

As pouring rains brought the most widespread flooding Britain has seen in 50 years, Prime Minister Tony Blair suggested yesterday that global warming is contributing to the disastrous weather. “In the longer term, we have to try and work to deal with these problems on not just a national level, but on an international level. […]

We Blinded Them With Scientists

More than 250 scientists, including Edward O. Wilson and Paul Ehrlich, sent a letter to President Clinton this week urging him to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska from oil development. Many enviros have been calling on Clinton to declare the area a national monument before he leaves office, but Clinton has announced […]

Fox Guarding the Penhouse

To the disappointment of environmental and human rights activists, a Mexican judge on Tuesday rejected evidence that two environmentalists had been tortured into confessing to drug and weapons charges. Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, who have been sentenced to seven and 10 years in prison respectively, led peasant farmers in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero […]