Environment

Climate writer Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything.

Contamination of land and water is addressed; less so fracking's links to climate change, earthquakes, other problems.

As conservative right-wing politicians continue to bring down our economy by refusing to raise the debt-ceiling limit, maybe the answer is simply to call their bluff.

Maybe if we go fast enough even this all-too-patient president will get caught up in the draft. But weu2019re not waiting for him. We canu2019t.

It is a long-awaited step toward codifying the food safety law that Congress passed two years ago.

Dr. Anthony Ingraffea: My position is this. Where shale gas development has not yet occurred, ban it. Period.

This is a public health crisis and an epidemic; veterans alone account for 20 percent of US suicides.

Disaster victims are now being expected to shoulder relief expenses that used to be shared publicly.

The ‘Iranian threat’ is overwhelmingly a Western obsession, shared by Arab dictators, though not Arab populations.

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