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Forty percent of the food grown in the U.S. is trashed -- and a lot of it is still perfectly edible.
But now more people are growing obese and getting diseases like cancer and diabetes.
Because you don't get to have nice things, is why.
By J. Matthew Roney The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain are often overlooked, but they are...
Water animals decrease in size at ten times the rate of land animals under warming conditions.
The elections were a mixed bag for all things urban, but despite a couple of big losses, mass transit came out smelling like roses.
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
Reducing emissions from airplanes over the Arctic could allow the region's ice to recover slightly, according to new research.
Rescued ducks, a crime scene involving a 3,500-year-old tree, and 40 million McMansions that nobody wants -- these are the things you were reading about last year when you should have been studying up on cap-and-trade and carbon taxes.