Articles by Grist staff

But It’s Still Friggin’ Raining in Seattle

2005 is hottest year on record, and 2006 weather is wacked We know you’ve been waiting with bated breath to hear the outcome of the competition between 1998 and 2005 for hottest year on record, and NASA’s results are in: 2005 wins! 1998 had El Nino, but 2005 had a remarkably warm Arctic. Congratulations, 2005, […]

Tadpole Position

Real-world combos of pesticides highly lethal to frogs, study shows Frogs exposed to a pesticide mix similar to what’s found on the average farm die in greater numbers than those dosed with just one pesticide, a new study shows. In new research in the online edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, scientists at UC-Berkeley […]

Al’s Well That Pens Well

Al Gore to publish new book on global warming The self-proclaimed “former next president of the United States” — currently at the Sundance Film Festival (and, may we point out, looking quite natty) to promote his new documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth — has announced that he’ll soon be coming out with a […]

The Fries Have It

Boston diner gets its heat from used veggie oil Restaurant owner Don Levy geared up for this year’s chilly Boston winter by getting rid of his furnace. Wait, it’s not as batty as it sounds: Levy replaced his old heating system with a boiler that runs on 100 percent vegetable oil — a readily available […]