Articles by Grist staff

They Didn’t Get the “Aw, Cute” Memo

Public hearings on polar-bear fate get Alaskans all riled up The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is holding public hearings on plans to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act, and it’s getting an earful. A hearing in Anchorage on Friday brought out critics of all stripes, from the deputy director of the […]

But Wait, There’s More

High-tech extraction methods are delaying the peak of world oil production Remember the predictions that the world was at or near the peak of oil production? Sigh with us now, for industry is using high-tech methods to suck oil from wells once considered tapped out. Thanks to steam and carbon dioxide injections, as well as […]

What Goes Up Must Keep Going Up

Draft of U.S. government report says greenhouse-gas emissions on the rise A leaked draft of a U.S. government report shows that officials expect greenhouse-gas emissions to keep climbing under President Bush’s watch. The U.S. Climate Action Report — which was due to the U.N. over a year ago and comes with its own ironicalicious acronym […]

Get to stitchin’, bitchez

Yo-ho-ho me fellow lovers of the briny deep. I realized just recently that me li’l column be runnin’ for a whole year now. Remember that first arrrr-ticle? With the joking about poop decks and the promise to shiver ye timbers? (And speaking of that, we should get together soon, matey …) How the time flies […]