Articles by Grist staff

Helter Smelter

Enviros are cheering a decision by an international environmental panel to investigate Mexico’s handling of an abandoned lead smelter in Tijuana that has become a symbol of pollution problems along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Commission for Environmental Cooperation, established by a side accord of the North American Free Trade Agreement, agreed to compile a report […]

Zed, last of his species, in "Why Cowboy Boots Were Invented"

Can You Hear the Drums, Fernando?

A controversial bill due to be debated in the Brazilian Congress next week would cut the legally protected portion of the nation’s Amazon region from 80 percent to 50 percent. Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso promised yesterday to fight the measure. Enviros warn that the bill would dramatically increase destruction of the Amazon rainforest, the […]

A 3M-tive Strike

3M Co. announced yesterday that it will stop producing many of its well-known Scotchgard oil- and water-repellant products after finding that one of the chemical compounds they contain lingers in the environment for years and is found widely in the bloodstreams of people around the world. 3M says that the substance, perfluorooctanyl, has not been […]