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Advocates say genetically modified crops are regulated like crazy. Critics say they are totally unregulated. We hack our way through this rhetorical impasse.
Next time you find yourself drunk at a festival, instead of finding an isolated patch of grass to pee on, consider the public tower of straw that turns your pee into plant-friendly compost.
Those of us who are suspicious of GMOs need to come to grips with the ways that the risks of gene-splicing resemble those of old-school agronomy.
This couple plans to let dophins assist in their birthing process, and then probably immediately eat the baby. Don't trust dolphins.
The ag-tech giant paid "experts" to discredit critics and support shills, according to a new story.
A new report in the journal Science discovers there are a lot of things about fracking we don’t know. But since we've fracked half the country anyway, we're going to find out.
American taxpayers spent more money cleaning up and helping out after natural disasters in 2012 than they spent on education or transportation.
Investment in unconventional fossil fuels is expected to outpace spending on renewables by a ratio of at least 3-to-1 in the decades ahead.
Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching...
