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In the FDA’s actions on trans fats, are there lessons for GMO labeling?
Trans fats have been an unlabeled part of the American diet until relatively recently -- a fact that makes a good case for the "precautionary approach" to new foods.
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Al Gore is a vegan now — and we think we know why
Hint: It has four legs and might be contributing as much to climate change as all our cars and trucks combined.
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#ClimateThanks: 5 Things I’m Thankful for this Year
This Thanksgiving, people around the country are using the hashtag #ClimateThanks on Twitter to share who and what they’re thankful for in the fight against climate disruption. As director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, I have the great honor of working with people across the U.S. who are winning big climate victories week […]
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Scaring polar bears in order to save them
A small town in Canada gets a lot of traffic from hungry polar bears -- which is bad news for humans and bears alike. To keep them away, bears need to learn to fear humans.
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Proud moment: The U.S. is no longer the world’s biggest jerk on climate change
The planet's largest historical greenhouse gas polluter walked away from the U.N. climate talks looking a little better than in years past -- mainly because others behaved so badly.
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Last-minute settlement spares key environmental justice standard
A housing discrimination suit will not get its day in the Supreme Court -- and that is probably a good thing for civil rights.
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I fought the law and, actually, I won: How one lawyer helps protesters
Attorney Lauren Regan helps green activists navigate the forbidding landscape of post-9/11 law enforcement.
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Moving Up the Food Chain
For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The share of the human diet that came from hunting versus gathering varied with geographic location, hunting skills, and the season of the year. During the northern hemisphere winter, for instance, when there was little food to gather, people […]
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4 climate policies we’re thankful for
There isn't much good news to report about the environment these days. But here are a few developments for which we can give thanks.
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As Warsaw climate talks end, scraps of good news in a mess of bad
The U.N.'s process grinds forward, and delegates agree on some important steps to halt deforestation, but remain allergic to bigger commitments.
