Environment

(Photo: mike / Flickr)Kathy Fairbanks, spokeswoman with the Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition, says requiring labels on genetically engineered food would increase food prices. What she doesn't …

There are few acts graver than when a government takes the life of one of its own citizens. Executions often get a lot of coverage in the US, when …

Long involvement in Canada's tar sands has been central to Koch Industries' evolution and positions the billionaire brothers for a new oil boom. Over the last decade, Charles and …

(Photo: brandoncripps) Thanks to the blessings of nature and good farmers, you and I can enjoy such scrumptious delights as fresh corn-on-the-cob, popcorn and many other variations of this …

The Israeli opposition party Kadima, which has the largest number of Knesset seats of any single Israeli political party, will join in a national unity government with second-seated Likud and …

A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking …

(Photo: jcarlosn)You pay a hidden premium every time they fill up your gas tank. The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay …

“What We Look Like,” with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Robyn Chapman, is a follow-up to “Ladydrawer's” look at women's participation in the labor force. This time, we look at …

Natural gas drilling in Dimock, Pennsylvania. (Photo: Helen Slottje / shaleshock.org) The “Rogers” family signed a surface-use agreement with a fracking company in 2009 to close their 300-acre dairy …

Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S. More than a year after the triple …