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Free birth control? We're getting closer … [UPDATE: We're there!]

Women will no longer have to make co-pays on birth control, the Obama administration announced on Aug. 1.

More coal in the U.S. means more pollution for China

A new report says U.S. coal exports mean more pollution in China.

Could Murdoch's News Corp be behind Climategate too?

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation should be considered a suspect in climategate, the hacking of climate scientists' e-mail accounts back in 2009.

Our economy is hungry for food stamps

Food stamps do more than feed the needy-- they also boost a struggling economy.

What's the legal status of a country that gets swallowed by the ocean?

By the end of this century, it's likely that at least a handful of island nations will find out what it means to become a "deterritorialized" state, writes Rosemary Rayfuse in the Times.

Quiz: How much coal is in your life?

Take Sierra Club's quiz to find out how much of a threat coal poses in your life.

Anti-gay-marriage pledge calls for 'robust childbearing'

The anti-gay-marriage pledge being pushed by a right-wing Iowa group has made headlines, but we haven't heard much about its call for "robust childbearing."

Urban gardens: The harvest is not just food, it's community

Community gardens have an almost magical power to change the urban landscape. Now many in New York City are safe in the hands of those who tend them.

Nuclear power's new marketing strategy: hide behind some windmills

The tagline on this advertisement for German Atomic Forum ("founded in 1959 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy in Germany") is "CO2 Emissions = Zero."

Thanks to the recession, recycling is booming

A few years ago, the only people who came in to Alliance Recycling in Emeryville, Calif., were were pushing shopping carts. Now, the same center is seeing people pull up in late model cars.