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Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides (Biotechnology, Health, Environment)

The US Department of Agriculture plans to eradicate three species of fruit fly in Hawaii by spraying suspected carcinogens and mutagens on the islands.

W.S. Merwin

Blogs

Frigid and Sweltering: The New Climate Normal

Madeline Ostrander

A new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says weather around the world is becoming more extreme.

August 8, 2013

GMOs to the Rescue?

Madeline Ostrander

A flurry of recent news claims GMOs can save agriculture and raises some concerns.

August 2, 2013

Jenny McCarthy's Vaccination Fear-Mongering and the Cult of False Equivalence

Katrina vanden Heuvel

By giving science deniers a public forum, media outlets implicitly condone their claims as legitimate.

July 22, 2013

This Earth Day, Stop the Appalachian Health Crisis Caused by Mountain Top Removal

Laura Flanders

Mountain top removal is wreaking havoc on Appalachia. There's a bill on the Hill to stop it.

April 22, 2013

Parched Corn Fields and the Global Market

Christopher Hayes

An Ohio produce farmer's fields of failed crop point to a problem that goes far beyond her family's losses.

July 30, 2012

The Legacy of Chernobyl

Laura Flanders

Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl disaster, the US media have yet to print the pictures of Chernobyl now.

April 26, 2012

The Republicans' War on Science and Reason

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Saying that Republicans want to repeal the twentieth century is too kind.

October 25, 2011

Science, Blinding

Eric Alterman

Reed on Republican climate scientists, and readers respond to Bush v. Gore and Obama's tax compromise.

December 16, 2010

Gaming Your Brain For Violence

The Notion

What effect does training soldiers to "dehumanize" the enemy have on us? And are video games giving us in some part the same training?

April 9, 2010

Minority Opinions on the iPad

The Notion

The iPad -- It's very strange. It started arriving in stores April 1 and the reviewers are already calling it a game changer but one aspect of the new device is causing consternation among some.

April 1, 2010