Environment & Science

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Atlanta Falcons football player Michael Vick looks down as he prepares to address the media after pleading guilty to a federal dogfighting charge in Richmond, Monday, Aug. 27, 2007. Should we forgive Michael Vick?

Science says we'll be healthier if we do, but some argue there's room in a healthy life for a good grudge
  • Does the Prius have an Achilles heel?

    Hybrid technology depends on rare minerals currently produced mostly in China. The Saudi oil sheiks must be pleased
  • Cogito ergo sum, baby

    Toddlers have amazing philosophical minds that work like computers and can teach us a world about ourselves
  • What's really in your shampoo

    Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair. But the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head
  • "Death panel doc" is all about life

    Right-wing boogeyman Ezekiel Emanuel is a persuasive advocate for humane reform. Doctors like me need his wisdom
  • Annals of GOP character assassination: Steven Chu

    The Energy Secretary is a "radical global warming activist." Not that there's anything wrong with that
  • The beauty and terror of science

    Romantic poets and scientists tapped the marvels of nature and sounded a clarion alarm that can transform us today
  • Dolphins are dying to amuse us

    SeaWorld and aquariums, implicated in the shocking new documentary about dolphin slaughter, "The Cove," strike back
  • The Huffington Post is crazy about your health

    Why bogus treatments and crackpot medical theories dominate "The Internet Newspaper"
  • How cooking makes you a man

    Anthropologist Richard Wrangham has a provocative theory on human evolution. It starts with food and an open flame
  • Standing up for Obama's health plan

    A physician who treats the disabled and injured explains why the reform bill gets America on its feet
  • Sushi to die for

    Will bluefin tuna survive our insatiable appetite for status and taste?
  • Steven Chu: Facebooking the nation

    Can adept social networking and an interview with Jon Stewart stop global warming?
  • Goodnight, moon travel

    It's time to save planet Earth. And our inspiration, once again, comes from JFK
  • Will America's parks be his oyster?

    Obama says politics will no longer cloud science. But his choice for national parks director is facing that charge
  • The FRAC Act under attack

    Are Democrats going wobbly as energy companies resist curbs on the natural gas drilling practice known as fracking?
  • Michael Jackson doctor went too far

    The dermatologist who exposed the singer's medical history on "Larry King Live" committed a fundamental violation
  • Why America is flunking science

    Don't just blame poor education for our nation's scientific illiteracy -- but our politics and pop culture
  • I'm tired of just being a man

    How I learned about my own animality (and "humanzees," Stalin and scary creationists) by living with a chimp
  • Overheated by clean energy

    As the debate over the Waxman-Markey climate bill rages on, Harvard's top environmental economist sheds some light
  • Sushi cows of the sea

    Sustainably farmed bluefin tuna? Come on -- what's the catch?
  • Pick your poison: Wild salmon or global warming

    Every dam removed in favor of a fish run subtracts more renewable energy from the grid
  • Life is out of whack

    It may drive ecologists crazy to talk about a balance in nature. But it's more necessary than ever
  • The baby-steps plan to stop global warming

    History teaches us that strong environmental legislation takes years of effort to perfect
  • Plundering the oceans

    Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another
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