Articles by Grist staff

An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor in Business

A U.K. government report to be released next week will name and shame supermarkets that sell produce tainted with pesticides. Thirty percent of the food samples tested for the report contained pesticide residues; most were within allowable limits, but a small percentage exceeded lawful levels. While pesticide residue levels in the nation’s food are declining, […]

Dumbo Cancels Appearance at Bangkok Film Festival

The World Wildlife Fund in Thailand has launched a year-long campaign to end the rampant ivory trade in the nation, whose national symbol, ironically, is the elephant. Traders exploit legal loopholes, contributing to a rapid decline in the elephant population in Thailand and neighboring Myanmar and Cambodia. WWF estimates that only some 2,000 wild elephants […]

This One's Not All Good News, But We're Desperate

Carbon-monoxide levels seem to be steadily decreasing over the eastern U.S., signaling that polices to reduce pollution may be succeeding, according to University of Maryland scientists who published their findings in Geophysical Research Letters. Still, air quality in East Coast cities this summer has ranked among the worst in the 1990s, with levels of ground-level […]

"Darn," Says Company Oil Spokesperson, "Guess We'll Just Have to Raise Prices."

Democrats won a small victory in the Senate yesterday when they blocked an effort to keep oil companies from having to pay increased royalties when they drill on public land. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) tried to let oil companies off the hook by tacking a rider onto the Interior Department spending bill, but Sen. […]