Articles by Grist staff

Engineers Gone Wild

Automakers combine forces to develop new hybrid transmission Tired of getting their rear ends handed to them by the Prius, GM, BMW, and DaimlerChrysler plan to invest over $1 billion in R&D toward a new hybrid transmission that, boosters say, will leave Toyota’s market-leading hybrid in the dust. “Dual-mode” hybrid technology includes an onboard fuel-optimization […]

Spill ‘er Up!

Oil spills from Japanese and Philippine tankers It’s been an oil-spillarific few days. A Japanese tanker, en route from Jordan, collided yesterday with a distressed cargo ship and spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude into the eastern Indian Ocean. The ship’s owner claims the spill has been contained and there’s no need to clean […]

How’s That Mars Exploration Going?

News flash: as world warms, weather gets worse As the globe warms, the risk of more frequent and severe forest fires, droughts, and floods rises. So says, well, the entire scientific community, forever. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is being billed as the most comprehensive look yet […]

Conservation International chats with Stone Gossard

Earlier today, Conservation International hosted a live chat with Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard. I would be blogging it just in time for y'all to send in your own questions, if it weren't for that pesky EST after the 1 p.m. (Gah!) So instead, I offer the transcript from the not-so-live-anymore chat.