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Whether we stop the crazy train with a compromise or careen into the ravine, the fiscal cliff presents serious challenges for cities and agriculture.
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.
The author of a much-discussed report on failed climate legislation reflects on what she's learned, and what activists need to do next.
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.
Thanks to climate change, wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. In the Southwest, forests are on course to disappear altogether.
