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If it seems like you've seen these proposals before, you have. And they kind of admit it.
The Democrats' platform is less green than it was four years ago -- but they have lots of composting and recycling bins at the convention center.
Can the seed giant patent DNA, even if a farmer comes by it legally? After several courts sided with the company, the Supreme Court will take up one farmer's appeal.
And, worse -- mutations were seen in offspring born far from the radioactivity.
With their play "Farmscape," an Iowa professor and her students have brought agribusiness, GMOs, consolidation, and other core tensions of the Midwest farming world to life.
A more likely (if unproven) culprit: the drought in Texas.
The Senate's top Democrat isn't only throwing punches at Romney. He's also got it in for climate deniers and the coal industry.
Three years ago, Seattle challenged developers to build the next generation of uber green buildings -- but few answered the call. What can we learn?
A mining area of 600 square miles has polluted as much as 1,700 miles of streams.