Currents

A report released this month raises new questions over the safety of a proposed Canada-to-Texas pipeline.

If you can’t pronounce the ingredients and additives in your food, at least you can know whether they have been associated with any troubling health impacts and should be eaten with caution–or not eaten at all. The Chemical Cuisine app from the Center for Science in the Public Interest breaks down the unpronounceable (but OK […]

One study finds that offices are loaded with flame retardants that appear to pass from hands, to mouths, to bloodstreams.

The massive oil spill in the Yellowstone River faces ongoing cleanup problems—and brings new pipeline worries.

appalachia rising Nearly 800 People Hiked Up Blair Mountain In West Virginia to Stop Coal Companies From Destroying ItWhen most of the campsites that had been arranged for the 200-300 participants on the five-day March on Blair Mountain in West Virginia fell through, a monumental organizing effort became a lot more complicated. Still, to this […]

New York lost a serious environmental advocate when Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned.

The U.S. and other developed nations discard a staggering amount of food waste every day.

We are “sailing through the great ocean of the universe,” says Brian Thomas Swimme, as he stands framed by the scenic island of Samos, Greece, in the documentary Journey of the Universe. The bright morning and vacant beach give Swimme—the film’s host and co-writer—the sense that he is “the first person on the first day […]