Articles by Grist staff

Sweet, Now They Can Clean the Bathrooms

Bush 2008 budget proposal contains big bucks for national parks With the National Park Service centennial looming in 2016, President Bush has proposed a 2008 budget boost that’s making park advocates swoon. It would add $230 million to the 2007 park funding request and $100 million more each year for 10 years, making an additional […]

Gary Lagerloef, earth, space, and ocean researcher, answers questions

Gary Lagerloef. What work do you do? I work at a small nonprofit scientific research institution named Earth & Space Research, where I have several key roles. I cofounded ESR in 1995, I am the current president, I serve on the board of directors, and I am a senior research scientist. The last role occupies […]

Landmark report says humans cause warming, and more

Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: Now We’ve Done It The Airspeed Velocity of an Uneaten Swallow The Triple Threat Eh, You’ll Be Fine Grandchildren, Schmandchildren The Illumi-nicey Read the articles mentioned at the end of the podcast: You’re Getting Warmer The Short-Term Solution That Stuck ESR Said Than Done Re: […]

Kevin Bacon launches SixDegrees.org

Kevin Bacon has gone über-meta. The once-ubiquitous film actor has taken the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” trivia game — itself based on the already-meta concept that everyone (and everything?) is somehow connected — to a whole new level with a new charity-based website: www.SixDegrees.org is about using this idea to accomplish something good. It’s […]