Articles by Grist staff

Not a Steller Success

Debate is raging among environmentalists and fishers over Alaska’s Steller sea lions, whose numbers have dropped by more than 80 percent in the last 20 years, from 120,000 to 20,000. Enviros charge that fishers are catching too many pollack, exacerbating the sea lions’ decline by depriving them of a primary food source, and last month […]

Hogwash!

In an effort to keep mountains of hog manure and other animal wastes out of waterways, the U.S. EPA today will outline new pollution rules it wants to impose on factory farms. Under the rules, large hog and dairy operations would have to get pollution permits from state environmental agencies, requiring that they safely store […]

Not-So-Safe Harbor

Australia’s Sydney Harbor was hit this week by an 80,000-liter (21,000-gallon) oil spill, creating a seven-mile-long slick that lapped at the side of the famous Sydney Opera House and pungent fumes that drove tourists and locals away from the area. The cleanup is expected to take a month, and a serious risk will be posed […]

South Park Village: Bigger, Longer, and (Mostly) Unopposed

Developers and a number of enviro groups are backing a compromise plan to build a large tourist and resident area outside Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The proposal, which federal officials are likely to approve today, would create Canyon Forest Village on 272 acres near the south entrance to the park, including new hotels […]