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Alternate, Upworthy-style headline: "You'll never believe which bodily fluid is not safe to buy online!"
Science writer Maryn McKenna explains why the drugs we rely on may soon stop working.
The scene plays out in India. At a reception, I met the head of Indian operations for Esso (now ExxonMobil)....
Sure, the company has to pay a couple million here and a couple million there because of its bad behavior, but it made $45 billion in profits last year, so no problem.
(This is a guest post from Steve Norris) This is a tough story to write about: the horror of contaminated...
Ten years ago this week, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and he appointed me to be the Secretary...
Note: There's a terrible, terrible drought going on in Texas.
Republicans cheered when EPA workers were furloughed. But poll results show that most Americans wanted those workers back on the job.
Thirty years ago, scientists applied fertilizer to two test plots. More than 12 percent of the nitrogen is still in the soil, and nearly as much has leached into groundwater.