Articles by Grist staff

Hey, Hey, Where're the Monkeys?

Machine-gun-toting commercial poachers in Africa are killing apes and monkeys at such high rates that some scientists fear a number of primate species could be exterminated from central Africa’s jungles within 10 years. Biologists from several enviro groups, including Conservation International, estimate that African poachers kill some 1 million metric tons of game every year. […]

Han, Seoul, Oh!

The U.S. military offered an official apology to South Koreans today for dumping formaldehyde, a toxic chemical and suspected carcinogen, into the Han River, a main source of drinking water for Seoul’s 12 million citizens. The apology came after some 250 South Koreans held an anti-America protest in Seoul on Saturday, pelting an effigy of […]

Ill Will and Grace

The U.S. EPA is investigating why its officials ignored evidence for 18 years that W. R. Grace and Co. used vermiculite ore tainted with asbestos in its building products. An EPA study in 1982, during the Reagan administration, found high levels of asbestos in the company’s vermiculite, contrary to claims made by Grace, but the […]

Dams All in Distress

Since the precedent-setting breaching of the Edwards Dam in Maine last year, several other dams in New England have been removed or breached to help protect fish, and officials are considering the same fate for hundreds more. Unlike the huge dams in the West owned by the feds, the New England dams tend to be […]