Articles by Grist staff

The Spirit of 84

America’s fourth largest lumber retailer, 84 Lumber, pledged yesterday that by 2003 it will phase out all wood from forests considered endangered and sell only wood independently certified as coming from sustainably managed forests. With this move, 84 Lumber, which has more than 400 stores in 30 states, follows the lead of the top two […]

Puppety Love

Tame offspring and unsafe food sources could spell trouble for the effort to restore the California condor in the West, says a new study published in the journal Conservation Biology. Since the feds rounded up the last 27 wild condors in the 1980s and began a captive breeding program, most eggs have been removed from […]

Clinton Rules

On the chance that Gov. George W. Bush may become president next January, the Clinton administration is burning the midnight oil to complete a bundle of new regulations backed by environmentalists and other liberal groups and opposed by business interests. At the U.S. EPA alone, 67 regulatory decisions are on tap, including ones relating to […]

Born in the Sign of Cancer

Exposure to toxic chemicals in food, water, and air may be leading to a dramatic surge in childhood cancers, asthma, and sudden infant death syndrome in Canadian children, according to a report released earlier this week. For example, the report by the Canadian Institute of Child Health found that childhood cancers have increased by 25 […]