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For want of a reef, the kingdom was lost

Pacific reefs dying faster than previously understood.

Take Two

Step It Up sequel is coming this November — get ready to hit the streets Step It Up, the nation-spanning climate protest organized in April by renowned author Bill McKibben, was, by all accounts, a success. And if at first you succeed, why not do it again: in a new Dispatch, McKibben announces Step It […]

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Your purchases support us — not that we’d pressure you, or anything Ever wondered what the Grist staffers are like when we step away from the website-manufacturing machine? Now you can find out more about a few of us in the Grist Staff Picks Store at Amazon. OK, we admit it, this is a naked […]

Flo Nays

Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy’s own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie […]

YearlyKos: I’m ugly and boring

Hilarious. I was interviewed, briefly and randomly, by the Talking Points Memo guys, who were wandering around YearlyKos (and related parties) doing short video clips. Their video coverage is here. Apparently I was so boring I didn’t make the cut. Guess it’s true what they say: I’ve got a face for blogging!

Bush to host climate summit in D.C., and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Freight Fright Dream a Little Ream of Me Fencing Match We Could’ve Sworn Someone Was Already Working On That Prints: Not Charming Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: How Green Is Your Candidate? Desert Flowers Getting Sloshed Salt of the Earth

One more Grist layer on that fatty internet sandwich

Like the title says, Grist is now on the social music network Last.fm! We haven't gotten into releasing our own music (yet ... ) but our two most recent weekly podcasts are up there. More importantly, if you're a fan of Last.fm you should definitely scrobble the Grist podcast every time you listen to it. We want to see those listening metrics soar!

Have questions about Last.fm and Grist? Put them in the comment thread and we'll get back to you. And be sure to vote in the poll below the fold.

Turning the seas into sterile wastelands

I don't eat meat, or fish, or, as a friend puts it, anything with a face. (This comes up because in the Midwest, when you tell your host you are a vegetarian, you will be asked, "What about chicken? Do you eat that?" So you need a quick summary that describes the boundaries of your food weirdness.)

Occasionally people will assure me that I should be eating fish for the health benefits. After watching an extraordinary documentary feature called Deep Trouble by the BBC, I'm content to stay a herbivore. Less mercury that way too.

Deep Trouble is a lengthy, absorbing, and depressing special feature on a DVD that contained two episodes from the Beeb's magnificent Blue Planet series. The DVD I just watched was from Netflix, and it had the "Tidal Seas" and "Coasts" episodes.

One searches for a parallel to the way we're treating the seas ... about the best one I can come up with is the wholesale slaughter of the buffalo (or bison, I can't get it straight in my head) in the 19th-century western U.S. Massive killing to take only the tiniest, choicest morsels, meanwhile denuding the habitat and the creatures that depended on it.

Vegetarianism: not just about saving land animals.

Heathrow owners win climate-camp injunction

Last week in Daily Grist, we reported that BAA, the company that owns Heathrow Airport, had requested an injunction against protesters planning a weeklong Camp for Climate Action in mid-August. The original request was so badly worded that it sounded like 5 million people would be kept away from the airport, but a judge granted […]

YearlyKos: Ugh update

If one wanted to be a responsible adult, one would probably avoid staying out until the wee hours and drinking to excess on the night before one’s panel discussion on global warming politics. Consequently one would not feel like the bottom of a shoe, and would not be croaking like a frog, when one addressed […]