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These four artists bedazzle an especially ugly ocean problem: thousands and thousands of square miles of discarded floating plastic.
The former Daily Show correspondent says there are two kinds of gentrifier. Only one would open a mayonnaise shop.
As the charbroiled western states cool down for the winter, ranchers are bracing themselves for year-round fire risk. Here's what that means for the meat on our plates.
Big Oil and its Republican lackeys claim that the recent elections give them a mandate to drill. It couldn't be farther from the truth.
The scientists behind the controversial study that linked GMO-fueled herbicides with sickness in lab rats have also now published some of their data.
A chance meeting in a Washington, D.C., bookstore turned into an hours-long conversation. Here are the highlights.
It's not as easy as banning pesticides and boosting honeybees. We need to make our farms function more like wild ecosystems.
Disappearing beaches, erosion, and buildings toppling into the sea are just a few problems citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska, are dealing with due to climate change.
If the dominant rats were further down in the tunnels, mostly submissive rats would have survived. Which could make rats nicer overall. Maybe. Probably not.
