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You know where your coffee beans come from -- so why not your gasoline? Did your $3.50 a gallon go to prop up our tar-sands-addicted frenemies in Canada?
David Owen's new book The Conundrum tries to make the case that increased energy efficiency only leads to increased consumption -- but is he cherry-picking his supporting data?
A winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, Sofia Gatica organized women in her city to study the health effects of agrochemicals in the soy fields and worked to get a dangerous pesticide banned. Now she's taking on Monsanto.
Foolish enviros might think that oil pipelines are bad for wildlife, what with the habitat-destroying and whatnot. But Republican Rep....
These furry beasts are sooooo cute -- until they break into the house, tear up the garden, or turn up dead in the silverware drawer. Some say city life is making them smarter. The real problem: They’re an awful lot like us.
A closer look at how lobbying from the processed food industry is reshaping kids' health -- literally.
In 2006, Romney supported high gas prices as a way to discourage consumption. He's since hit the reset button on that talking point, too.
If a new round of genetically engineered corn is approved, it will be bred to withstand huge quantities of 2,4-D, a pesticide that has the potential to drift and kill vegetables in fields as far as two miles away.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have figured out how to make cockroaches into creepy-crawly batteries. Finally, living in filth...
