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Matt Ridley’s optimistic, but not so rational, take on bee collapse

The Wall Street Journal's Matt Ridley tries to debunk beekeepers' worries about a Bayer pesticide, but government scientists are concerned too.

Why arch-polluter Koch Industries owes the planet its entire net worth

Koch Industries is helmed by climate change deniers who fund a disinformation campaign aimed at committing planet earth to millennia of runaway climate change. No surprise, then, that if you calculate the cumulative damage the Koch brothers' company has done to the environment, it almost exactly equals their net worth!

How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt's

The current unrest in Egypt is too complex to blame on spiking global food prices alone, but food insecurity does lead to political insecurity.

How food prices can fuel revolutions like Egypt’s

The current unrest in Egypt is too complex to blame on spiking global food prices alone, but food insecurity does lead to political insecurity.

Is blindness on clean air, climate change, and public health contagious?

Some 123 members of the House of Representatives have cosponsored bills to strip the EPA of its authority on the Clean Air Act.

Don't fear riding a bicycle, fear sitting in that chair

We know that bicycling is good for public health. But what about YOUR personal health and safety?

Don’t fear riding a bicycle, fear sitting in that chair

We know that bicycling is good for public health. But what about YOUR personal health and safety?

Thanks, climate change: Here comes Snowzilla

This week's "historic" storm will affect up to 100 million Americans; in Chicago, the National Weather Service is predicting the storm could be "lethal." Meanwhile, a new report says this is exactly what we should expect from a warming world.

Tea Party-backing Koch Industries is major carbon polluter

Here is an estimate of the carbon footprint of the Kochs, based on the pollution generated by its activities and from the use of its products.

In Egypt, you can switch off the internet but not the streets

The streets of Cairo themselves have been the medium that has carried the message of the Egyptian people.