Articles by Grist staff

Dental Damn!

Baby teeth from children who live in the radiation paths of nuclear power plants in Connecticut and New Jersey contain alarmingly high levels of radioactive matter, scientists reported this week at the World Conference on Breast Cancer in Ottawa, Canada. Emissions from the two plants travel downwind through Long Island, N.Y., which has some of […]

Gorillas in the Midst (of War)

The five-year-old war in Congo is taking a heavy toll on the nation’s wildlife. Officials in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park talk of “animal genocide” and estimate that about 100 of the 250 eastern lowland gorillas in the park have been killed since 1996, as well as about 300 of the 400 forest elephants alive before […]

They'll Finnish the Report Annan

The head of a U.N. team investigating environmental damage in Yugoslavia said yesterday that the team has found no evidence that NATO bombing caused major ecological catastrophes. But Pekka Haavisto, the former Finnish environment minister who led the team’s 10-day tour of Serbia, called for urgent action to help clean up “hot spots” of war-related […]

Riders Knocked Out of Their Saddles

Senate Democrats knocked four anti-environmental provisions out of an Interior Department spending bill yesterday, including riders that would have blocked new energy-efficiency rules for federal agencies and permitted lead mining in a Missouri national forest. But Democrats failed to remove language that would let mining companies dump large amounts of waste on public land, and […]