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Committee chair Rep. Smith has suggested that the threat of climate change is overblown, but now worries about space rocks.
By Lester R. Brown The world is in transition from an era of food abundance to one of scarcity. Over...
Under looming mandatory budget cuts, polluters would win, you would lose, and Mother Earth would cop yet another blow.
Two years later, we offer a look back at "the medium chill" and a consideration of what it means to live a meaningful life.
Conservationists are tripping over themselves to praise Obama's nomination of the CEO of REI as the nation’s top land manager. Can she convince the president it's time to kick some ass?
The day after the November 6 election I wrote about Obama’s electoral victory over Romney, which I was glad for....
With $2 billion of funding committed, the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound looks like it will be the first offshore wind farm in the country. It certainly won't be the last.
Shell beats back a lawsuit over pollution in Nigeria, and Chevron scores a point in its fight to avoid paying for its mess in Ecuador.
The Virginia Senate has passed a bill making it illegal to recklessly fling a car door open into traffic. But do such laws make any difference?