Articles by Grist staff

Where the Rubbers Meet the Road

Lack of promised funding from the U.S. and other industrialized nations has led to a severe shortage of condoms in the developing world, hampering efforts to curtail population growth, stem the spread of HIV, and give people the means to control the size of their families, according to a report released this week by the […]

Fish Ain't Brain Food Anymore

The U.S. EPA is expected to announce as early as next week a plan to begin regulating dangerous mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. Mercury contamination is believed to cause neurological damage in some 60,000 babies born each year in the U.S., and the damage may affect kids’ performance in school, according to a report […]

Stop, Children, What's That Sound?

This fall National Park Service officials are expected to ask all park superintendents to come up with plans for limiting noise in national parks and protecting the “soundscape,” or the natural sounds unique to each area. “All of a sudden, places that look the same as 100 to 200 years ago don’t sound like they […]

Occupational Hazard

More than 100 environmental activists occupied Al Gore’s campaign office in Olympia, Wash., yesterday to protest the veep’s ties to Occidental Petroleum, a U.S. corporation with plans to drill for oil on rainforest land in Colombia claimed by the indigenous U’wa tribe. Police arrested 10 of the activists, the second occasion this year on which […]