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Sucker Punch
Thanks (or maybe no thanks) to a deal struck by the federal government and the Washington state Attorney General’s Office, some 170 barrels of highly radioactive plutonium waste will be […]
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Angelo the Ripper
Environmentalists scored a victory yesterday — albeit a fragile one — when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that the Clean Water Act applied to attempts […]
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Milling for the Grist
Green-leaning former Vice President Al Gore has decided against running for president in 2004 — but never fear, Grist Magazine is keeping its hat in the ring. No, we’re not […]
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This Ain’t Rocket Science. Oh Wait, Yes It Is.
The U.S. Pentagon is a major source of perchlorate, the main ingredient of solid rocket fuel and a toxic chemical that can cause neurological problems and developmental damage in infants […]
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Kim Jong Ill
In a sign of the further souring of relations with Washington, North Korea announced yesterday that it would immediately restart a nuclear reactor that has been offline since 1994, when […]
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Cell-ebrate
Every year, hundreds of millions of new cell phones come into the world — and now, thanks to a deal brokered by the United Nations Environment Programme, when they leave […]
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A Hull of a Problem
Oil continues to seep out of the sunken oil tanker Prestige, further threatening coastal areas of northwestern Spain that have already suffered severe damage from the spill. An estimated 33,000 […]
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Music to Calm the Salvage Beast
Salvage-logging operations that extract downed trees from storm-damaged areas may actually wreak more havoc on forests than did the original storm, according to a study conducted at the University of […]
