Articles by Grist staff

Readers talk back about Montreal, nuclear power, holiday lights, and more

  Re: All This Aggravation Ain’t Satisfactionin’ Us Dear Editor: For the first time ever, you got a story completely wrong. Environmental groups just won a huge victory at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change and first meeting of Kyoto Protocol Parties in Montreal. You missed it. “Plenty […]

Kids in the Holiday

Grist takes a winter break You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout, we’re telling you why: Grist ain’t gonna be in your inbox for the next two weeks. Yes, even environmental journalists like to kick back with a cup of eggnog once in a while, and that once in a […]

Polar Distress

Enviro groups sue to get species-act protection for polar bears This week’s news about drowning polar bears got you all riled up? You’re not the only one. Yesterday, three green groups sued in federal court to force the Bush administration to consider listing the bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Greenpeace, the Center […]

Is It Hot in Here, Or Is It Just Me?

2005 to be one of the hottest years recorded This year will go down as one of the hottest on record. NASA’s Goddard Institute says 2005 will beat 1998, the current record-holder, while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.K. Meteorological Office — using the same land and ocean data as NASA, but […]