Articles by Grist staff

We Had Joy, We Had Funds

Grist wraps up summer fundraiser with one final plea A new study shows that donating to charity activates some of the same pleasure spots in the brain that eating and sex activate. For real! And writing a check (or using PayPal) is much tidier than those other activities. So please, consider giving to Grist — […]

Search Engine Engine Search

Google pledges $10 million for plug-in hybrid research Google has gone all googly-eyed over plug-in hybrid vehicles, pledging more than $10 million in funding for the nascent technology. At a sunny photo op at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters yesterday, company officials showed off a handful of Toyota Prius and Ford Escape cars that had […]

Irony Of Iron Ease

U.S. EPA challenges California company’s plankton-seeding plan A California company’s plan to fight climate change by seeding the ocean with iron dust is drawing fire from the U.S. EPA, which reportedly woke from a nap with the vague feeling that it ought to be doing something regulatory. The company, Planktos, will use the iron to […]

Scarce Fell On Alabama

Crops, neighborly relations suffer in Southeastern U.S. drought A severe drought is gripping most of the Southeastern U.S., threatening crops, inspiring prayer, and turning neighbors against each other. “It’s one of the worst droughts in living memory in the Southeast at this point,” said Doug LeComte, a drought specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]