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  • Eleven organic breakfast cereals get put to the spoon

    The scene was surreal … I mean, cereal. I awoke from deadline-anxiety dreams one Sunday morning, and crept down to the kitchen at the farmhouse where I work. There I found a dozen people chomping breakfast cereal, scribbling down notes, and trading bon mots. Coincidentally, the farmhouse had been packed with guests that weekend, including […]

    Grist staff Culture

  • Snippets from the news

    • Building boom could lead to water crisis in Spain. • One of largest U.S. Hummer stores closes its doors. • Can pollution make you fat? • Could invasive species be a good thing? • Zinc mining could threaten world’s deepest lake.

    Grist staff Uncategorized

  • U.S. bottled-water guzzling is slowing

    Americans’ seemingly insatiable thirst for bottled water seems to be slowing, according to new industry stats. Annual U.S. bottled-water consumption shot up nearly 46 percent between 2002 and 2007, to an average 29.3 gallons per person. But the Beverage Marketing Corporation predicts that bottled-water guzzling will grow only 6.7 percent in 2008, the smallest increase […]

    Grist staff Technology

  • Over Nevadan objections, Yucca Mountain repository inches forward

    Nevada’s Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump inched forward Monday as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreed to formally review the feds’ license application for the site. It will likely take the NRC four years or so to peruse the Department of Energy’s 8,600-page application and decide whether to give Yucca the go-ahead. Attorneys for the state […]

    Grist staff Climate & Energy