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Global food prices to spike, reserves to plummet in 2013

That food you're eating right now? You may want put it in a safety deposit box, because global price spikes and plummeting reserves mean some places could go hungry as soon as 2013.

Philip Bump Climate & Energy

NASA satellite discovers Cookie Monster on Mercury

It's a crater shaped like Cookie Monster! Or at least, those are Cookie Monster's eyes, but ... OH MY GOD WHERE IS HIS MOUTH???

Jess Zimmerman Uncategorized

Lunchroom justice: Students push for cafeteria workers’ rights

As the good food movement takes root on college campuses, some students are asking: Where do the people who make our food fit in to the picture?

Rachel Cernansky Food and Agriculture

Ask Umbra: What’s in a label?

Who decides what's "natural" and what's "eco-friendly"? Umbra peels back the latest on the labeling debate.

Ask Umbra® Technology

Mitt Romney’s winners and losers

Romney claims government shouldn't pick "winners and losers" in the energy sector, but it's been picking winners for decades -- the wrong winners. Sen. Bernie Sanders explains.

Sen. Bernie Sanders Technology

Almost $11 million spent on Solyndra attack ads — but voters aren’t buying it

Special interest groups spent close to $11 million since April on ads attacking Solyndra and clean-energy loans. But polls show most voters still don't know about the company or are indifferent.

Stephen Lacey Climate & Energy

Rooting for root vegetables: The perfect recipes for fall and winter

Here are three hearty recipes from a new cookbook dedicated entirely to root vegetables. Trust us, it's better than it sounds.

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture

Is ExxonMobil trying to pipe tar-sands oil through New England?

Enviro groups have gathered evidence suggesting that big oil interests want to send tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to Portland, Maine.

Lisa Hymas Technology

Obama admin lays out welcome mat for big solar projects in the West

Six Western states could soon see new commercial-scale solar projects on public land, thanks to a plan from the Interior Department.