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Will the FDA keep hiding most data on farm antibiotic use?

The FDA has been protecting big agriculture's trade secrets and ignoring the public's right to know.

San Francisco’s private-public spaces go public-public

After languishing underused for more than 25 years, dozens of plazas in downtown San Francisco are finally becoming more accessible to the public.

The real gun crisis is in America’s urban sacrifice zones

The massacre in Newtown, Conn., has revived the national debate over gun control. But the real bloodbath happens every day in our cities.

For the 36th November in a row, global temperatures were above average

Yet 2012 is on track to be only the eighth warmest year ever. We can do better!

Immigrant farmers grow against the odds

As the majority of American farmers near retirement age, immigrant and minority farmers are stepping up in the face of adversity to take their places.

Wyoming considers adding fossil fuels to school curriculum — with the industry’s help

The proposal has already passed one key legislative committee.

Nabisco sends 5,000 Oreos and a dude in an Oreo suit to Antarctica; scientists are pumped

To celebrate its hundredth year, Oreo is "taking over" Antarctica with 5,000 Oreos. We don't think they will meet much resistance.

Coal museum installs solar panels to save money (obviously)

Because coal belongs in a museum, and solar panels belong on roofs.

Soot pollution may cause as many as 3.2 million premature deaths a year

Which is why efforts to reduce particulate pollution as a vital public health issue.

Beautiful video compares cities to nature

We're glad we're not the only ones who see some sort of connection