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Should an environmental review be required before the USDA can finance properties with drilling leases?

A new report suggests dire consequences by 2050 if we don’t take immediate action to combat climate change.

Low acorns this past fall means less rodents for predators and more Lyme Disease for people.

Will Right-to-Dry Laws Convince People to Bring Back Clotheslines?During the Leave-It-to Beaver era of the late 1950s, most homes certainly had a clothesline and probably no one thought much about whether it offended their neighbors. It’s a safe assumption that June Cleaver, the perfect homemaker, would have taken issue with anyone even hinting her clothesline […]

A new study by Columbia University is calling attention to what has been deemed “the other carbon dioxide problem”–ocean acidification.Global warming has long been making headlines, but a new study by Columbia University is calling attention to what has been deemed “the other carbon dioxide problem”–ocean acidification. The phenomenon of ocean acidification occurs when too […]

A major study finds a range of hormone-altering, asthma-triggering chemicals in everyday products, including “green” ones.

Another Colorado town decides that poisoning prairie dogs is the only way the social creatures can be managed.

Gage Skidmore Rick Santorum Tries to Paint Environmentalists as Radicals, Forgetting that Many Catholics–Including the Pope–Support Taking Action on Climate ChangeGOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is perhaps the best example of how far the right wing has fled from scientific reality. At a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, Santorum attempted to portray President Obama’s rejection […]