Environment Slick With Denial: The Oil Industry’s Inaction on Advancing Clean-Up Technology The scrubbing, soaking, and skimming happening now on the Santa Barbara coast are the same methods used back in 1969. Judith Lewis Mernit
Environment Flame Retardants Are Everywhere—and They’re Invading Our Wildlife Toxicologists are finding possible carcinogens in the bodies of otters and bald eagles, some of the Great Lakes' greatest wildlife. Susan Cosier
Environment Demolishing the Ivory Tower You'll need two Ph.D.s and a J.D. to buy ivory legally in the United States. So don’t even try it. Brian Palmer
Environment Where Climate Change and Shellfish Meet A new report identifies regions where the shellfish industry is likely to get hit hardest by ocean acidification—and some ways to fight the future. Nathan Collins