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A reader worries that her banana peels are giving off bad gas. Umbra forks over some scrappy advice.
Obama has been as bad as Bush when it comes to curbing ground-level ozone pollution. But soon he'll have another chance to get ozone rules right.
ERM, which wrote the environmental study on Keystone XL, did dodgy and deceptive stuff, but none of it amounted to serious rule breaking, says the State Department's inspector general.
Louie Psihoyos promises his new documentary about extinction is a real-life Ocean's 11.
Farmers today don't muddy rivers as much as they used to -- but the full downstream picture is still quite dark.
The salty waste makes roads less slippery, but environmentalists warn that it contains nasty chemicals and radiation.
Oil giants claim there are no limits on the future of oil and gas extraction, but they may be in for a surprise or two down the road.
An Australian agency has given Indian and Australian coal mining companies permission to dump silt from a dredging project in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
A reader inquires about bovine flatulence. Umbra lets it rip.