Articles by Grist staff

Lynx 'N' Logs

A dozen environmental groups sued the U.S. government yesterday for failing to meet a deadline to protect the Canada lynx under the Endangered Species Act. The enviros accused the feds of delaying a July 1998 proposal to list the big cat as threatened in the lower 48 states, and lamented the fact that the government […]

No Mobile Is Good Mobile

In a move praised by enviros, the National Park Service said on Monday that it is leaning toward banning snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. The NPS has been considering a number of winter-use plans for Yellowstone, but the EPA recently told the agency that the only acceptable plan is the one that […]

Made in Taiwan, Dumped in China?

Even as political tensions between China and Taiwan have mounted this year, the two have been secretly negotiating a surprising multibillion dollar deal in which more than 200,000 drums of radioactive waste from Taiwan’s nuclear power plants would be disposed of in mainland China in return for money and aid to the mainland’s nuclear power […]

La Resistance

Europeans are becoming increasingly passionate in their resistance to genetically modified (GM) foods, staging colorful protests and destroying test fields of plants in addition to refusing to buy the foods. Pollsters say that only 1 percent of Britons think there is any value to genetically modifying plants, and British supermarket chains have been among the […]