Articles by Grist staff

The Fall of the Collossus of Roads

Some 62 percent of Americans surveyed favor a proposal to protect all roadless areas of at least 1,000 acres in national forests, according to a poll released earlier this week by the Heritage Forests Campaign, National Audubon Society, and Wilderness Society. More than 70 percent favored a ban on oil drilling, logging, and mining in […]

Down the Hatch

Pres. Clinton nominated Ted Stewart, a conservative Utah Republican strongly disliked by enviros, to a federal judgeship yesterday, caving in to the wishes of Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Hatch has been stalling the confirmation process for a number of Clinton’s judicial nominees, and the administration hopes that the nomination of Hatch’s chosen […]

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 […]