Articles by Grist staff

Winged Victory

The peregrine falcon, which was pushed to the brink of extinction by widespread use of DDT, is expected to be removed from the endangered species list tomorrow, the first species to be delisted since 1994. At the beginning of this century, there were an estimated 3,900 breeding peregrine pairs; by 1975, the number had fallen […]

Joint Commission Issues Smokin' Report

Canada and the U.S. should ban the export of water from the Great Lakes because the lakes don’t have a surplus, says a preliminary report released yesterday by the International Joint Commission, the U.S.-Canada agency that regulates the lakes. Canada yesterday threw its support behind a commission recommendation for a six-month moratorium on the large-scale […]

Wavy Gravy

Major Canadian cities dump more than 1 trillion liters of sewage with little or no treatment into oceans and other bodies of water each year, according to a study by the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, which calls the waste treatment problem “a national disgrace.” The worst offenders among the 21 cities studied were Victoria, Halifax, […]

Amazon.Gone

The Amazon rainforest will be cleared within 80 years if multinational companies continue to log at the current rate, Greenpeace warned yesterday in its annual report. Illegal commercial logging is responsible for 80 percent of the trees that are taken from the forest each year, and most of the profit from sale of the timber […]