Articles by Grist staff

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 […]

A New Monty Python Parrot-y

Monty Python comedian John Cleese, featured in the famous “dead parrot” comedy sketch, has joined an effort to push for stronger parrot protections. A new study by the World Wildlife Fund and the World Parrot Trust has found that 27 percent of the world’s 330 parrot species are in serious danger from habitat loss and […]

Does This Mean Kids Are Pests?

Men who are exposed to pesticides on the job may have increased difficulty fathering children, according to a new study published in the Lancet medical journal. Researchers studied 650 couples, including 20 couples in which the male partner had been regularly exposed to pesticides. The exposed men were significantly less successful than the others in […]