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It's a timely reminder that there are many potential points of failure as we move toxic material around the country.
Forty percent of the food grown in the U.S. is trashed -- and a lot of it is still perfectly edible.
Water animals decrease in size at ten times the rate of land animals under warming conditions.
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.
Assuming that summer school involves desperately trying to keep ice from melting.
Rescued ducks, a crime scene involving a 3,500-year-old tree, and 40 million McMansions that nobody wants -- these are the things you were reading about last year when you should have been studying up on cap-and-trade and carbon taxes.
The author of a much-discussed report on failed climate legislation reflects on what she's learned, and what activists need to do next.
The elections were a mixed bag for all things urban, but despite a couple of big losses, mass transit came out smelling like roses.
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
