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Both sides of the oil sands debate exaggerate their arguments. The oil sands are neither a climate catastrophe nor an energy security bonanza.
Aubretia Edick has worked at a Walmart store in upstate New York for 11 years, but she won’t buy fresh...
It's too bad conservative lawmakers want to shut the South's booming clean economy down, since green jobs fight poverty in the region.
Since the housing crash, food prices have been at the center of Wall Street speculator's games. Can government regulation make a difference?
Smallpox plagued humanity for thousands of years. In the 18th century, smallpox killed one out of every ten children in...
In 2009, Walmart created a stir when it announced that it would develop a Sustainability Index to assess the environmental...
A new project raises bees on undeveloped land near O'Hare Airport, trains ex-convicts in beekeeping, and sells the resulting honey and beeswax.
Mangalica pigs in Hungary. Food Studies features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and...
Bigger wind turbines can harvest more wind energy, but they're also heavier, which makes them less efficient. But a scientist at Case Western Reserve University figures he can solve this fundamental dilemma by throwing carbon nanotubes at it.
