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Put down the BPA-free plastic water bottle and step away from the non-toxic sippy cup.
1970s scholars posited that an “apartheid ecology” excluded people of color from environmentalism. Were they right?
Perspective on the food movement from a writer who grew up shoveling manure.
Clear majorities are concerned about climate change and favor action to mitigate it, a new poll finds. But Republican politicians just don't care.
Want to cut your air conditioning costs, save people from getting sick, and slow global warming at the same time? Grab a bucket of white paint.
An error-riddled hit-job op-ed in The New York Times blasts Showtime’s new series on climate change, "Years of Living Dangerously." Here's why the op-ed is wrong.
A reader wonders if it's OK for her kids to dip into a nearby river. Umbra gets testy.
A trove of secret documents details the U.S. government's global push for shale gas.
Crude oil is just pouring out of America’s freight trains -- more last year than in nearly four previous decades combined.