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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.
Assuming that summer school involves desperately trying to keep ice from melting.
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.
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.
Sugar riot! Harvard study shows a correlation between sweet sodas and violence in kids.
The author of a much-discussed report on failed climate legislation reflects on what she's learned, and what activists need to do next.
Thanks to climate change, wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. In the Southwest, forests are on course to disappear altogether.
The Times' graphic description of the fire at a Bangladeshi clothing manufacturer is a graphic depiction of externalized costs.