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Walmart employees weren't trained on how to handle returned pesticides and other hazardous liquids, so they dumped them down drains and into the trash.
Recent DNA testing revealed that so-called sustainable Chilean sea bass samples were not, in fact, what they were advertised to be.
Sure, it's possible to get a somewhat healthy sandwich at Subway. But that is not what people are ordering.
The U.K. subsidizes the burning of American-grown wood in British coal power plants and somehow calls it "green." How can this be?
Carbon taxes work just fine. In B.C., where they have one, emissions are falling and the economy is growing. Modeling shows the same could happen in Massachusetts. Heck, the same could happen anywhere!
Recent caricatures of food writers like Michael Pollan paint them as fickle fashionistas. But the food movement is far deeper than that.
Technically all the animals will be in kennels, but we're going to cling to our fantasy of being whisked through the countryside in a pile of cats and dogs.
Scientists are scared of the link between bigger wildfires and the rapid thawing of northern permafrost.
If we manage well, we can achieve a higher quality of life both individually and socially.
