Articles by Grist staff

Color Us Grateful

Do you work for Hewlett-Packard? Do you love Grist? We’re seeking Grist-loving Hewlett-Packard employees to help us get a new color printer via the company’s employee giving program. If you could lend us a hand, drop a line to emailE=(‘rmorton@’ + ‘grist.org’) document.write(‘‘ + emailE + ‘‘) . Thanks!

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 […]

Money for Nothin’

Bush’s 2007 budget includes Arctic Refuge drilling, cuts EPA funding Unsurprisingly, greens will find little to love in President Bush’s proposed $2.77 trillion budget for fiscal year 2007. It calls for oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, estimating $7 billion in revenue by 2008 from leasing drilling rights — nearly triple the $2.4 […]