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No, Americans did not just vote to “drill, baby, drill!”

Big Oil and its Republican lackeys claim that the recent elections give them a mandate to drill. It couldn't be farther from the truth.

Ben Adler Politics November 7, 2014

Serious about saving the bees? Time to rethink agriculture

It's not as easy as banning pesticides and boosting honeybees. We need to make our farms function more like wild ecosystems.

Manu Saunders Food and Agriculture October 15, 2014

The little seed library that could … get busted by a state ag department

A modest local effort to build a seed library in Pennsylvania calls down the wrath of the state's farm regulators.

Heather Smith Politics August 8, 2014

The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem

Republicans' top priorities: approving the Keystone XL pipeline and blocking Obama's plan to curb CO2 emissions from power plants.

Ben Adler Politics November 5, 2014

Australia responds to shark attacks by … attacking sharks first

Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach.

Jim Meyer Uncategorized August 12, 2014

This doomed Alaskan village shows just how unprepared we are for climate change

Disappearing beaches, erosion, and buildings toppling into the sea are just a few problems citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska, are dealing with due to climate change.

Kate Sheppard Cities December 15, 2014

Big Energy has tried to turn people of color against solar power since forever

Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.

Brentin Mock Technology November 14, 2014

The results of a tailing pond breach at Imperial Metals Corp's gold and copper mine at Mount Polley in central British Columbia are pictured August 4, 2014

This giant Canadian mine spill doesn’t make us feel good about Alaska’s Pebble Mine

A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.

Darby Minow Smith Technology August 8, 2014

Rotten odors rouse citizen sleuths in Pennsylvania gas patch

Since government won't monitor whether the oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in. Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.

Heather Smith Technology November 3, 2014

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