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Ask Umbra: How would you spend $50 million for the planet?
A reader wonders what investment would net the best returns for Mother Earth. Umbra suggests a well-rounded portfolio.
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Food-safety push in California hurts wildlife — and doesn’t make food safer
A deadly outbreak of E. coli in 2006 spurred an overhaul of food-safety practices, but that's been bad news for natural habitats, a study finds.
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Pennsylvania’s ag-gag law could protect frackers
A bill in the state House would not only shield animal abusers from activists -- it could also shield natural-gas companies.
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Vermont House passes GMO-labeling law
If the Senate and the governor approve, Vermont could become the first state in the nation to require labeling of genetically modified foods.
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Supreme Court hands a big win to Monsanto on GMO seeds
The court ruled unanimously that an Indiana soybean farmer violated Monsanto’s patent by saving its trademark Roundup Ready seeds.
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This ain’t The Onion: Wall Street Journal urges “more atmospheric carbon dioxide”
The country's leading financial newspaper jumps to the defense of the "demonized chemical compound" CO2.
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$1.9 billion wind project coming to Iowa
One of Warren Buffet's companies has big plans to build turbines in Iowa, creating lots of jobs and lowering electricity bills.
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Shell to drill world’s deepest offshore oil well in Gulf of Mexico
It will be about twice as deep as BP's Deepwater Horizon. But, hey, nothing to worry about.
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![Relatives mourn as they look for a garment worker, who is missing after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, outside Dhaka May 2, 2013.]()
![Relatives mourn as they look for a garment worker, who is missing after the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, outside Dhaka May 2, 2013.]()
Fashion isn’t frivolous — it’s a matter of life and death
More than 1,100 people died in the Rana Plaza building collapse. It's time to start making connections between what we consume and what it takes to get it to us.
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Coal-export plans going off the rails in Pacific Northwest
Three of six proposed coal-export terminals in Washington and Oregon have been scrapped, and the remaining pieces of the region's coal scheme face challenges.
