Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

The Ice, Man, Goeth

The Greenland ice sheet — which contains almost 10 percent of all the frozen water on the planet — is melting at a rate of approximately 12 cubic miles per year, according to research by NASA scientists published in the journal Science. If melting continues at this rate, it could cause a measurable rise in […]

Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?

Two months after India became the second nation in the world with a population greater than 1 billion, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and other government leaders will meet tomorrow to develop a strategy for slowing the nation’s population growth. Since the birth of India’s symbolic billionth baby on May 11, another 3.5 million […]