Articles by Grist staff

So Much for Our Plans to Get Chip on Rushmore

NPS won’t loosen ad guidelines; Yellowstone contemplates wireless A National Park Service proposal to accept money from tobacco and alcohol companies and engrave donor names on benches and bricks was shot down when new marketing guidelines were issued Monday. Public comment had been highly critical of the proposal. “We give the Park Service significant credit […]

Dirty Deeds Done Crappily

Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol’ mess The cleanup effort at the nuke-waste-riddled Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is looking like one big fustercluck. The finish date has been delayed from 2011 to 2017 or later, extending the time that 53 million gallons of radioactive and toxic waste will sit in leak-prone tanks […]

Is Our Children Learning?

U.S. government study finds human-caused climate change real; Bushies unconvinced A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration has demolished one of the key arguments of climate skeptics, concluding yesterday that there is no discrepancy in rates of warming at Earth’s surface and in the troposphere. Oh, and also that there is “clear evidence of […]

Webby or Not, Here We Come …

Vote for Grist in the Webby Awards! It’s down to the wire, folks: voting in the Webby Awards — “the only award show for internet sites that matters” — ends at midnight PDT on Friday, May 5. In the magazine category, there’s a neck-and-neck race between National Geographic and a scrappy little mag we like […]