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Four newly uncoverd skulls belong to "four newly identified species of toothed baleen whale -- a type of whale that scientists thought had gone extinct 5 million years earlier."
Americans overwhelming support policies like banning big sodas and subsidizing fruits and veggies, according to a new poll.
Pesticide use is the leading cause of a nationwide decline of grassland bird species, beating out habitat loss, according to a new study.
The smart people at Nature tell us that GMOs will save us, despite their shortcomings. But we've heard all this before.
Umbra asks the experts for a little financial advice. The question pays off, with interest.
Forget what Monsanto's told you: A group of subsistence farmers is breaking harvest records without GMOs or artificial herbicides and fertilizers.
Renewable energy journalist Osha Gray Davidson recently released a book called Clean Break, detailing the German Energiewende (translation: energy change). ...
When Ohio allowed frackers to move in, it expected new jobs. Those jobs have not materialized, according to a new report.
As the public’s appetite grows for locally grown eats, so do the smart marketing campaigns designed to help local farmers, and foster more of them.