Articles by Grist staff

Hummer Bummer

Correction: Schwarzenegger didn’t really sell off his Hummers News reports published last week and cited here in Daily Grist claimed that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) had, in a fit of green consciousness, sold his fleet of Hummers. Turns out that was poppycock. A media representative in the Governator’s office said Monday that Schwarzenegger still […]

The Little Engine That Could

Honda develops “superclean” diesel engine for passenger cars Honda Motor Co. is aiming to clean up diesel’s dirty image with a new diesel engine for passenger cars that runs as cleanly as the most advanced gasoline-powered engines. In 2009, the company plans to start selling a sedan, probably a Honda Accord, powered by its new […]

Anyone Got an Extra PFD?

Earth nearing warmest point in a million years, may see rougher El Niños The earth is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years and is within 1.8 degrees of its highest average temperature in the past million years, scientists report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The global surface […]

An Accident Waiting to Aspen

Aspens are dying mysteriously in the Western U.S. Aspens, the most widely distributed trees in North America, are rapidly dying in some Western states — and no one knows why. The culprit may be insects, or climatic stress, or overgrazing. Or all of those. Or none of them. It may be a lack of recent […]