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The hunger wars in our future: Heat, drought, rising food costs, and global unrest

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.

Michael T. Klare Climate & Energy August 8, 2012

From muumuu to Miu Miu: Turning thrift-store rejects into cute couture (SLIDESHOW)

Watch Jillian Owens transform old doozies into fashion do's.

Darby Minow Smith Culture July 17, 2012

Gummi bear bratwursts are a crime against nature (but apparently taste sort of OK)

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.

Sarah Laskow Food and Agriculture August 13, 2012

Floating island the size of New Jersey discovered in South Pacific

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."

Jess Zimmerman Uncategorized August 13, 2012

These companies don’t want GMOs labeled in California

Here's a visual breakdown of the 20 companies that have put the most money into fighting California's Prop 37. Can you guess who's at the top?

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture August 17, 2012

Drama for your farmer: A play captures the demise of the small farm

With their play "Farmscape," an Iowa professor and her students have brought agribusiness, GMOs, consolidation, and other core tensions of the Midwest farming world to life.

Lori Rotenberk Food and Agriculture October 1, 2012

Alison Gannett: Extreme skier turned climate hawk

If we don't buck up and start behaving, we can kiss our powder days good-bye. So this world-champion downhiller is taking her message to boardrooms across the country to help major brands cut carbon by up to 50 percent.

Rachel Walker Culture September 18, 2012

Lawyers go after processed food industry with tactics that worked on Big Tobacco

In an effort to supplant government regulation, a group of high-profile lawyers plans to use the financial costs of obesity and diabetes to sue large processed food companies.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture August 20, 2012

Our Father, who art making the glacier smaller, please make it bigger now, OK?

The people in Fiesch, Switzerland, live near the massive Aletsch and Fiesher glacier, which, like most glaciers, is melting rapidly....

Sarah Miller Climate & Energy August 13, 2012

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