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Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, things that seem too good to be true probably are.
Today marks the solstice: the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter. Things will only get better...
A reader wonders how to network sustainably. Umbra consults the cards.
Earlier this month, Nicholas Stern — respected U.K. economist and author of the famed Stern Review on the Economics of...
If Congress can't pass a new farm bill by September, farm policy will default to a 1949 version of the bill that was constructed for a very different America.
One year after it started, the GOP investigation into Solyndra has found ... nothing. And independent analysts have found that the DOE loan guarantee program is on track and under budget. But Republicans aren't letting the facts stop their crusade.
New York City appears to have won a skirmish in its war on childhood obesity. According to a new report...
In the latest installment of our Protein Angst series, food waste expert Jonathan Bloom points to this fact: Roughly 20 percent of all meat produced in the U.S. doesn't get eaten.
The same lawmakers clinging desperately to Keystone won't extend the production tax credit that keeps the burgeoning wind industry alive.