Environment & Science

Plundering the oceans

Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another

By Katharine Mieszkowski 2009-07-01 03:31:00-07

The baby-steps plan to stop global warming

History teaches us that strong environmental legislation takes years of effort to perfect

By Andrew Leonard July 1, 2009

The unholy alliance against subprime carbon

Conservative Republicans and environmentalists have finally found something to agree on: Cap-and-trade is evil

By Andrew Leonard June 30, 2009

Horses to the slaughter

U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?

By Megan Wilde June 30, 2009

One brief shining moment for clean energy

Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough

By Joseph Romm June 27, 2009

Another day, another self-defeating energy bill compromise

Stopping climate change won't be easy if everybody who squawks gets a free pass

By Andrew Leonard June 24, 2009

God, He's moody

In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity

By Steve Paulson June 24, 2009

Land of the lost global warming skeptics

Does Will Ferrell have any idea that there is a subversive climate change subplot in his movie?

By Andrew Leonard June 19, 2009

Is Steven Chu too much of a techno-geek?

Rolling Stone accuses the Energy Secretary of having "excessive faith" in technology. But why not?

By Andrew Leonard June 18, 2009

Why we can't eat just one

We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?

By Katharine Mieszkowski June 18, 2009

Auto safety for dummies

Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.

By Katharine Mieszkowski June 16, 2009

New oil industry scheme: Girls, girls, girls!

Worried about upcoming energy legislation, the flacks come up with a fool-proof plan. Lipstick!

By Andrew Leonard June 11, 2009

Big Pharma says your mysterious pain is real

A brain scan told them so. And now they can sell you a drug. But what is unreal pain?

By Robert Burton June 11, 2009

Climate change: The poor get poorer

Hotter temperatures equal lower economic growth. Except not in rich countries.

By Andrew Leonard June 8, 2009

Don't flush that fertilizer!

Normal ecosystems use and reuse critical nutrients like phosphorus. But humans aren't normal

By Andrew Leonard June 5, 2009

Greenpeace's secret anti-palm oil agenda

Concern about climate change is just cover for a plot to crush upstart Asian competitors to Western fuel companies

By Andrew Leonard June 3, 2009

The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.

By Peter Dizikes June 1, 2009

Deadly heat

A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.

By Katharine Mieszkowski May 30, 2009

Don't judge the chemo kid

Those who have been through the living hell of cancer treatment understand the Hausers' decision to run away

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. May 22, 2009

Electric cars are coming!

We're sorry to be buzz kills. But we've heard this one before. Like in 1990. And 1910. Do the automakers have the juice this time?

By Katharine Mieszkowski May 20, 2009

Obama puts the fuel economy pedal to the metal

Bush never stopped fighting California's proposed rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Fut for the new administration, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

By Andrew Leonard May 18, 2009

Pesticides indicted in bee deaths

Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world's best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation's hives.

By Julia Scott May 18, 2009

Oprah's bad medicine

Given her influence, it's a shame the TV star offers unbalanced health and medical advice.

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. May 15, 2009

The geek in charge at the Department of Energy

Speaking at MIT, Steven Chu finds an audience that understands him a little better than the jokers on Capitol Hill.

By Andrew Leonard May 14, 2009

Did the White House just declare climate change war on itself?

A mysterious memo supposedly prepared by the Office of Management and Budget savagely attacks the EPA's finding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant.

By Andrew Leonard May 12, 2009