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A bombshell new paper says climate change might make the most destructive storms on Earth even more dangerous. But the findings are already being challenged.
Many cities legally require off-street parking spaces for single-family homes. This leads to ridiculous and unwelcome results.
Plants engineered to produce their own bug-killing toxins really have helped farmers cut the use of nastier chemical insecticides.
Monsanto's investigation into a rogue GMO outbreak can be summarized thusly: “Nothing is wrong at our end and everybody's crops are safe. Maybe our opponents planted our freak wheat to try to hurt us.”
A well off the Louisiana coast blew out on Tuesday, sending out a cloud of natural gas that exploded into a fire, engulfing the drilling platform.
Fairfield, Ill., is outlawing nude and exotic dancing in order to head off any trouble that might accompany an influx of fracking workers.
Whole Foods did a little experiment and pulled all produce pollinated by bees. The resulting photo is crazy.
A $25 billion plan, a small town, and a half-century of wrangling over the most important resource in California.
Gay-rights activist Dan Savage compares climate deniers to gay men in the early '80s who refused to face up to the reality of AIDS.
