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Lisa’s fantastic essay, “Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud,” had 196 comments last time I checked. If you...
Not as sweet as advertised: industrial-scale sugarcane production in Brazil.This is a post about Brazil’s sugarcane-ethanol “miracle,” but I can’t...
When you’ve been in the trenches writing about a problem for a while, it’s good to see it finally getting...
Last month, NOAA reported the world experienced the warmest January in both satellite records. And NOAA just reported (here) that...
For the sweetener industry, shovelling empty calories to your kids has been very, very good business. They’d prefer not to...
The FDA’s new report on the safety of endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A is months overdue and there is still no...
There’s some fascinating new research about “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas. Bradford Plumer...
A funny thing happened outside the twisted world of Congressional energy politics. Over at the Senate Banking Committee, Chairman Chris...
At a dinner this week in San Francisco, I found myself seated between Matt Golden, co-founder of energy efficiency retrofitter...