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Many cities legally require off-street parking spaces for single-family homes. This leads to ridiculous and unwelcome results.
Humans are very good at managing risks, except when it comes to the greatest risk we've faced -- climate change.
Big Meat is suing the USDA because it doesn't like rules that require country-of-origin labels and prohibit the mixing of meats from different countries.
China bets historically low Arctic ice will allow a rusty hulk to sail through the fabled Northern Sea Route, opening up a shortcut to lucrative trade in the E.U.
Whole Foods did a little experiment and pulled all produce pollinated by bees. The resulting photo is crazy.
Religious conservatives in Texas are fighting to infuse textbooks with their agenda -- and it won't just affect public school students in the Lone Star State.
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.”
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.
Efforts to plug a retired natural gas well off Louisiana's coastline went awry this week, triggering a leak. Now there's an ugly sheen covering several square miles.
