Articles by Grist staff

Carcinogens Without Borders

Latin American nations are gradually restricting or banning use of the most dangerous pesticides, but enforcement of rules is lax. For example, in Colombia, the hazardous insecticide endosulfan used in coffee production was prohibited in 1995, but officials say it is still widely used. In Brazil, which has one of the strictest pesticide laws in […]

Oh, That? It Was an April Fool's Joke on GM

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a website has the right to publish information from confidential Ford documents about the automaker’s efforts to build vehicles that emit far less pollution and have significantly better fuel efficiency than current models. The case is awkward for Ford because the company is now lobbying against tighter emissions and […]

Absolut Geneophobia

In another blow to biotechnology in Britain, one of a small group of farmers set to participate in trial plantings of genetically modified crops has dropped out of the project. The farmer changed his tune after meeting with local residents and members of Friends of the Earth, which has gone to court to try to […]

WWF Body Slams DDT

A study released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund argues that innovative methods can be used to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes just as effectively as the dangerous insecticide DDT, and that such methods would be cheaper and safer than spraying DDT. WWF is pushing for a phaseout of DDT and 11 other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) […]