Articles by Grist staff

You Can Wring My Bell

A variety of genetically modified corn not permitted in food has been detected in taco shells sold in U.S. grocery stores under the brand name Taco Bell, according to test results released by the Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a coalition of enviro, health, and consumer groups. Government officials are investigating the charges. The corn, which […]

It's My Prague-ative

Up to 30,000 anti-globalization protestors, including many enviros, are expected to descend on Prague in the Czech Republic this week during meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Inspired by the public uprising in Seattle last year and following on the heels of demonstrations last week in Melbourne, Australia, the activists will argue […]

Come on and Easement Down, Easement Down the Road

Almost one-third of Maine’s 15 million acres of forest have been put on sale in the last two years, and conservationists are worried that a good deal of forestland now in private hands may soon be lost to development. Maine voters last year approved $50 million to buy and preserve land, and land trusts and […]

Stand and De-Liverpool

Citizens of East Liverpool, Ohio, are calling on Al Gore to make good on a 1992 campaign promise to crack down on a local hazardous waste incinerator, which is spewing lead, mercury, and dioxin into the air, just 1,100 feet from an elementary school and alongside the Ohio River. Activists concerned about the incinerator have […]