Articles by Grist staff

And You Thought It Was the TPS Reports

Your commute may be killing you, says clean-air advocacy group Here’s one more reason to hate your commute: it could be making you sick. Commuters — on car, train, bus, bike, or foot — breathe in up to eight times more diesel soot particles than they would just being in a downtown area, according to […]

Don’t Make Her Bust Out That Bustier

Famed California town may have to fight yet another pollution battle Note to pollutey people: if you want to keep a low profile, perhaps it’s wise not to situate yourself in a location made famous for being unjustly polluted. A sewage-sludge conversion plant is being planned eight miles away from Hinkley, the small California town […]

Good God, Y’all

U.N. chief says climate change poses as big a threat as war When we were in school, assemblies were a chance to see something fun, like a juggler or a movie. How times change. Two months after taking office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his first climate-change speech, saying all kinds of gloomy things to […]

Who’s on the climate change A-List

Listen up, all you eco-celeb-hatas. (Yeah, you!) Starry-eyed site Ecorazzi and DeSmogBlog, which aims to clear the PR pollution clouding the science on climate change, have teamed up to create a li’l flash game that lets you rank celebs from stars to stinkers based on their eco-commitment. Check it out, below: