Articles by Grist staff

Natural Born Whale Killers

Environmentalists are planning to petition the feds later this month to list Pacific Northwest orca whales, also known as killer whales, under the Endangered Species Act. They say that PCB pollution is making the orcas more vulnerable to disease and early death and that devastated salmon runs in the region are hurting the orcas, which […]

Catch a Poacher By the Toe

A project to protect endangered tigers in Thailand’s Khao Yai national park is arming 28 rangers with M-16s and training them to do everything from setting up remote infrared cameras that record wildlife to disarming poachers. The project, organized by two U.S.-based groups, the World Conservation Society and WildAid, and funded in part by the […]

You Have the Right to Remain Noisy

Texas officials have tentatively agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by environmentalists who were arrested for peacefully protesting on the sidewalk in front of the governor’s mansion, the residence of George W. Bush. The enviros, who were calling on Bush to push for a measure requiring old polluting industrial plants to clean […]

Shape Up or Ship Out

A toxic pesticide that the U.S. banned in the 1980s, heptachlor, has been found in the wastewater of three cruise ships traveling in Alaska waters. Test results obtained from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation also indicated illegal levels of lead, copper, zinc, and silver in the wastewater that ships dump at sea, called gray […]