Articles by Grist staff

Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back

Honda’s new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota Toyota has thus far dominated the market for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, with its so-hot-Cameron-Diaz-has-one Prius outselling Honda’s diminutive Civic Hybrid by an almost two-to-one margin in the U.S. this year (and let’s not even mention Honda’s Insight — you ever seen one?). Now Honda is fighting back […]

Sounds Familiar …

Conservative Australian leader gets green during election year Australian Prime Minister John Howard has long been viewed as an implacable foe of environmentalists, scoffing at the Kyoto Protocol, supporting logging in old-growth forests, and declaiming his unwillingness to lose a single job or dollar of economic growth in the name of environmental protection. However, it’s […]

Boilerplate Tectonics

Bush and Kerry discuss their positions on science In the latest issue of the journal Nature, President Bush and John Kerry each respond to 15 questions about science and related topics. Because the responses are written, neither candidate sounds like himself — there are no Bushian malapropisms or Kerryan layered qualifiers — and for the […]

A Bridger-Teton Over Troubled Water

Chalk up a win for Wyoming wildlands Here’s a rare victory for the wilderness crowd: The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that it will suspend plans to open 157,000 acres of Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest — much of it roadless — to oil and gas drilling. Enviros say the forest is one of the […]