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Climate scientists are 95 percent sure that humans are causing global warming

Leaked drafts of the forthcoming fifth IPCC climate report reveal that scientists are more sure than ever before that we're screwing up the climate.

Lisa Hymas Climate & Energy

Animals in pants are officially a trend

What's next? Spats for chickens? Pigs in top hats?

Jess Zimmerman Food

NIH budget cuts force professor to euthanize his genetically modified rabbits

Sit tight -- this story's depressingness level is slightly reduced by a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference!

Holly Richmond Culture

Climate change is making your apples taste different

You can add “Back in my day, apples were actually crisp and tart” to your tales of walking uphill both ways barefoot in a snowstorm.

Holly Richmond Culture

Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?

Researchers who find problems with genetically modified foods deserve careful scrutiny. Instead, too often, they get pilloried or purged.

Nathanael Johnson Food

Ask Umbra: Can I keep bugs at bay without a spray?

A reader wonders about newfangled mosquito-repelling stickers and bracelets. Umbra does more than scratch the surface.

Ask Umbra® Culture

The Climate Movement and the 2014 Elections

Here’s a thought: hundreds of local climate activists around the country running for federal, state and local offices in 2014, doing so in a connected way and with solutions to the climate crisis at the top of the list of issues they consistently talk about. Given the urgency of the crisis, this seems to me […]

Ted Glick Uncategorized

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