In 2008, Tim DeChristopher found himself bidding for parcels of public land around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks of Utah at an illegitimate Bureau of…
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Remember the good old days when climate change was something that would occur a century or more in the future? Something we could avoid if…
The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was horrific to watch unfold. It will take decades — and billions of dollars — to clean up, as more problems seem to emerge by…
Tamar Haspel is a journalist who’s been on the food and science beat for the best part of two decades. She writes a monthly Washington…
A new review of four decades of science has come to this conclusion: organic agriculture has a key role to play in feeding the world. To analyze…
PULLMAN, Wash.--Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with sustainability goals in mind is possible. Their review of hundreds of…
In the late 1970s, scientists first came to a consensus that global warming was likely to result from increasing greenhouse gases released by the burning…
Harvey Wasserman As the first Democrat presidential debate finally approaches (on Oct. 13), America’s nuke power industry is in accelerated collapse. The few remaining construction projects in the U.S.…
Scientists and environmentalists are concerned that a new technique for generated “supercharged” genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be misused and trigger a health emergency or…
They knew. They lied. And the planet and its people are now paying the ultimate price. It's no secret that the fossil fuel industry—the set…
If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming.…
From the World Health Organization to the National Academy of Sciences, scientists are warning that rising antibiotic resistance poses a public health threat across the world. Now, a…