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Monsanto's investigation into a rogue GMO outbreak can be summarized thusly: “Nothing is wrong at our end and everybody's crops are safe. Maybe our opponents planted our freak wheat to try to hurt us.”
A well off the Louisiana coast blew out on Tuesday, sending out a cloud of natural gas that exploded into a fire, engulfing the drilling platform.
Fairfield, Ill., is outlawing nude and exotic dancing in order to head off any trouble that might accompany an influx of fracking workers.
Many cities legally require off-street parking spaces for single-family homes. This leads to ridiculous and unwelcome results.
A $25 billion plan, a small town, and a half-century of wrangling over the most important resource in California.
Gay-rights activist Dan Savage compares climate deniers to gay men in the early '80s who refused to face up to the reality of AIDS.
Humans are very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we've faced -- climate change.
Big Meat is suing the USDA because it doesn't like rules that require country-of-origin labels and prohibit the mixing of meats from different countries.
China bets historically low Arctic ice will allow a rusty hulk to sail through the fabled Northern Sea Route, opening up a shortcut to lucrative trade in the E.U.
