The Unpaved Path Ahead for the Los Angeles River
With $1.4 billion and Frank Gehry designing the plan, L.A. tries to bring back its lost waterway.
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Do We Really Vote With Our Forks?
On causal impotence and whether consumer choice even matters when it comes to our global food system.
The House Anti-Science Committee
By harassing climatologists, a notorious group of congressmen renews its war against scientists.
What We Know About the Computer Formulas Making Decisions in Your Life
When big data uses bad data, discrimination can result.
INDC: The Acronym Standing Between Us and Disaster
What’s an intended nationally determined contribution?
114 Years Young: Light Bulbs Before Planned Obsolescence
One last hold-out from a time when it made more sense to build things to last.
How Big Ag Stampeded Over Science and Reason to Keep Sustainability Out of Our Dietary Guidelines
Did Big Ag’s beef-loving cowboys just lasso the 2015 Dietary Guidelines? It sure does look that way.
Bees Bred With Some Special Genes Are Killing It
Backyard breeders are creating a new kind of hero honeybee—one that chomps off the legs of mites and saves the hive.
How Hunting Sea Otters Killed the Sea Cow—Maybe—and Other Tales of Megafauna Extinction
New research highlight the dangers of standing by while large animals go extinct.