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  • Countries May Have Shifted During Flight

    China builds new airports; still not as pollutey as U.S. China plans to build 48 new airports in the next five years, spending $17.5 billion on construction and continuing expansion of existing hubs. The country is already the premier buyer of Boeing and Airbus planes, and has vowed to buy 100 planes every year until […]

    Grist staff Cities

  • Wake Up and Smell the Carbon

    Al Gore launches new climate campaign Launched with profits from Al Gore’s new movie and book, a new group called Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend big bucks on advertising and grassroots organizing in an attempt to impart the dangers of climate chaos to the American public. Focusing particularly on conservatives and labor groups […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • The Love Vote

    Grist wins Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Magazine! Thanks to all of you — our dear, beloved readers — for wading through the labyrinthine Webby Awards site to vote for us. It worked! We won the Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Magazine. Some outfit called “National Geographic” won the “official” Webby (whatevs!), but […]

    Grist staff Uncategorized

  • Corrode to Perdition

    BP closes two more North Slope pipelines Oil giant — oops, beyond oil giant — BP is shutting down two more of its pipelines on Alaska’s North Slope, at the expense of 22,000 barrels of crude (worth some $1.5 million) a day. Neither pipe had leaked yet, but BP officials have been monitoring serious corrosion […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy