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Patterson: “Outrageous” That Farmers’ Lawsuit was Dismissed
Last week’s featured article, Organic on the Offensive, inspired strong reactions from people on both sides of the genetically modified agriculture debate. Among the responses…
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Organic on the Offensive: Nation’s Farmers Sue Big Ag
A group of farmers are waging a class-action lawsuit against giant GM seed company Monsanto. The farmers’ argument? “An invention that poisons people is not…
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Blogging the 2012 U.S./Canada Citizens’ Summit for Sustainable Development
Follow along in real time as 180 scientists, leaders, advocates and entrepreneurs gather to lay the groundwork for the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable…
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: An Interview with the UN Forum on Forests’ Jan McAlpine
Jan McAlpine is Director of the United Nations Division on Forests and head of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat in support of…
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Hauling in the Sound
In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state’s few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for…
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That was Then. This is Now.
The newly opened Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh is the first museum that seeks to catalog man-made biological organisms. The man behind the museum…
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Citizens’ Summit to Address Sustainability
A major summit to transform the prospects for sustainability in the United States and Canada will take place on March 24 and 25 at the…
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Multimedia: Take a Tour of the Center for PostNatural History
Watch a series of audio slideshows accompanying Jonathan Minard’s story on The Center for PostNatural History.
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Sage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as Temperatures Rise?
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty…
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No Easy Task: Bringing Solar to the Bottom of the Pyramid
Look at a satellite photo of the Earth at night. Some parts of the planet blaze with light, but much of the globe–home to more…
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How the Next Farm Bill Will Hurt Sustainable Agriculture – and Help Industrial Farms
Patrick Baron looks under the hood of the next US Farm Bill. What’s inside? More hidden subsidies for industrial farm animal production in the guise…
