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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 caricatures of food writers like Michael Pollan paint them as fickle fashionistas. But the food movement is far deeper than that.
Scientists are scared of the link between bigger wildfires and the rapid thawing of northern permafrost.
Those of us who are suspicious of GMOs need to come to grips with the ways that the risks of gene-splicing resemble those of old-school agronomy.
The U.K. subsidizes the burning of American-grown wood in British coal power plants and somehow calls it "green." How can this be?
In their new book, "Nature's Fortune," Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams tell the story of how the Big Apple built the best water treatment system in the world, no filters required.
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.
What are the risks of genetically modified food? And how can critics avoid bias when they study them? We take a deeper look.
Hundreds of thousands of parking spots across the U.S. are vacant, unwanted, and mandatory.
