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Forty percent of the food grown in the U.S. is trashed -- and a lot of it is still perfectly edible.
But now more people are growing obese and getting diseases like cancer and diabetes.
By J. Matthew Roney The fish near the bottom of the aquatic food chain are often overlooked, but they are...
Because you don't get to have nice things, is why.
Water animals decrease in size at ten times the rate of land animals under warming conditions.
The elections were a mixed bag for all things urban, but despite a couple of big losses, mass transit came out smelling like roses.
Reducing emissions from airplanes over the Arctic could allow the region's ice to recover slightly, according to new research.
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
Recent evidence that growing a diversity of crops would solve many of Big Ag's problems is encouraging, but it will take a larger shift in the culture of commodity farming to see any real results.
