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1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
Perspective on the food movement from a writer who grew up shoveling manure.
What do millions of dollars in television ads and mail and voter outreach get you? The status quo in Wisconsin and California.
Want to cut your air conditioning costs, save people from getting sick, and slow global warming at the same time? Grab a bucket of white paint.
Clear majorities are concerned about climate change and favor action to mitigate it, a new poll finds. But Republican politicians just don't care.
An error-riddled hit-job op-ed in The New York Times blasts Showtime’s new series on climate change, "Years of Living Dangerously." Here's why the op-ed is wrong.
A reader wonders if it's OK for her kids to dip into a nearby river. Umbra gets testy.
A trove of secret documents details the U.S. government's global push for shale gas.
Crude oil is just pouring out of America’s freight trains -- more last year than in nearly four previous decades combined.