Articles by Grist staff

Bicycles Shanghaied

Shanghai Bans Bicycles from Major Streets Shanghai, China, whose streets once teemed with peddling people, will ban bicycles from most major thoroughfares beginning next year. It’s a dramatic (and, many say, depressing) shift for a city that was home to some of the nation’s earliest bicycle factories. Now, Shanghai has become a center of China’s […]

Bump and Rind

Please Help Put an End to Our Silly, Sophomoric Grapefruit Fundraiser Here’s a five-second reader survey for you: Should we change the name of the Daily Grist to the Daily Rind? No, no, we’re just kidding … but on this second-to-last day of the 2003 Grist Grapefruit Challenge, with daily rinds piling up around us, […]

Death Warmed Over

Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says How’s this for classic gloom and doom: Climate change led to 150,000 premature deaths in 2000, and the annual number of such deaths could double in 30 years if current warming trends are not reversed, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. […]

Baby’s Breath

Exposure to Pesticides May Lead to Childhood Asthma Yet another reason to keep pesticides out of the house: Children exposed to household bug-killing chemicals during the first year of life may be more than twice as likely to develop asthma as those not exposed, according to new research by scientists at the University of Southern […]