Articles by Grist staff

Canadian Bakin'

Canada’s federal cabinet has approved a five-year, $500 million plan to address the problem of climate change, the government’s first substantive effort on the issue, though it only goes one-third of the way to meeting the country’s emission-reduction targets under the Kyoto climate change treaty. The plan, to be officially unveiled today, will call on […]

Wheaties — Breakfast of X-Men

Wheat grown near the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident is six times more likely to show mutations than wheat grown just 19 miles away, according to a study by a team of scientists in Ukraine, Britain, and Switzerland. The research, published in the journal Nature, suggests that radiation may push crops and other […]

Two Good to Be True?

The board of the New York League of Conservation Voters is split over whom to endorse in the race for New York’s open Senate seat — Rep. Rick Lazio (R) or Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Usually there is a clear leader on the issues on one side or the other, but this is one of those […]

Suing for Label

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by consumer and environmental organizations and a group of scientists that want the U.S. government to require labels on genetically modified (GM) foods. The suit challenged an eight-year-old policy of the Food and Drug Administration that considers gene-altering techniques to be essentially the same as conventional plant-breeding […]