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A Christian Science Monitor headline claims that EPA regulations are squelching coal companies. Not so: David Roberts explains what's really snuffing out the industry.
The biotech giant will go to great lengths to spin the story on GMO labeling, even if that means making claims it can't support.
Watch Jillian Owens transform old doozies into fashion do's.
Sunrise Coal's plan for a new Illinois mine is being held up by concerns over water use -- bad luck in a drought year.
You may not be able to tell from the sublime stillness of his hair, but United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek...
Can the seed giant patent DNA, even if a farmer comes by it legally? After several courts sided with the company, the Supreme Court will take up one farmer's appeal.
This should be a rule about food: If you wouldn't put two things in your mouth at the same time, they should not be combined into a single food.
The physical effects of climate change will prove catastrophic. But the social effects -- food riots, state collapse, mass migrations, and conflicts of every sort -- could prove even more disruptive and deadly.
The New Zealand Navy discovered the 7,500-square-mile slab of buoyant rock, which an Australian officer described as "the weirdest thing I've seen in 18 years at sea."