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The GMO giant wants to help you beat climate change … with your phone.
They gobble up trees and send politicians into a frenzy. But do the bugs know more about climate change than we do?
Report after report claims to tell us how much climate action will cost this century. But no matter how much faux specificity our climate economic models produce, the fact is that we cannot know.
Aggressive climate mitigation is absolutely worth the costs, but economic models are not a good guide to how difficult it might be.
The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that’s never been tested and money it doesn’t have. What could go wrong?
A California company is fixing to fill up urban nooks and crannies with plugin farming systems.
While high-profile issues aroused inflexible rhetoric, the food movement made real progress this year in a handful of important but less prominent areas.
The financial and environmental costs of burial and cremation are high, but there could be a better way.
Is this marine protected area the Potato Salad of crowdfunded conservation or the future of national parks?
