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Angry moms get gun-toters booted from Whole Foods

These women didn't let openly carried firearms stand between them and organic asparagus water.

Katie Herzog Technology

Bigwigs have big ideas for cutting our food waste in half

The movers and shakers at Davos want to target supply chains, not consumers.

Clayton Aldern Technology

Are we alone in the universe because all the aliens went extinct?

A new study suggests the life may have evolved all over the place a few billion years ago, but only Earthlings survived.

Suzanne Jacobs Culture

Carly Fiorina hijacks field trip, leads pre-schoolers to anti-abortion rally

Parents were not happy.

Katie Herzog Politics

Leo DiCaprio wins award, pledges $15 million to the planet

He called out the "corporate greed of the coal, oil, and gas industries" in his acceptance speech for the Crystal Award.

Kate Yoder Climate & Energy

David Koch, executive vice president of Koch Industries, attends an Economic Club of New York event in New York, December 10, 2012.

Koch brother resigns from museum board after calls from scientists

The billionaire polluter was on the American Museum of Natural History's board for 23 years. No more.

Katie Herzog Culture

My city banned plastic bags — now where am I supposed to recycle them?

A zealous city banned plastic bags -- then got rid of the bag-recycling bins too. Stuck with a bunch of bags, a reader asks advice maven Umbra Fisk how to handle the situation.

Ask Umbra® Culture

These bacterial communities are heating up the desert

"Biocrusts" make their own sunscreen, absorbing sunlight and increasing soil surface temperatures.

Suzanne Jacobs Science

Climate deniers attack NASA scientist dying of cancer

Piers Sellers wrote about his diagnosis. Climate deniers went after him.