Articles by Grist staff

As snowy peaks get warmer, ski industry tries to stave off extinction

With the Olympics starting this week, all eyes are on the slopes of Turin. But skiing and snowboarding could disappear from our collective culture in about 50 years, if global-warming forecasts ring true. In a lot of popular ski areas, there simply won’t be any snow. It’s all downhill from here. Photo: stock.xchng. It’s already […]

Color Us Grateful

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Well, They Had to Chop Something

BLM suspends funding for forestry research that contradicts Bush policy The Bureau of Land Management has abruptly suspended funding for a team of scientists who published findings undercutting a Bush administration timber policy. The Oregon State University researchers’ report, published last month in the journal Science, suggested that forests scorched in southwest Oregon’s 2002 Biscuit […]

That’ll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs

Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect Weird non sequitur of the day: A skin fungus that’s killing off frogs worldwide may have been spread by a pregnancy test. Yeah, we got that same confused look. A few decades ago, African clawed frogs were used to detect pregnancy — with surprising accuracy. The […]