Environment & Science

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Religion is poetry

The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.

By Steve Paulson July 21, 2008
When the bottom line overrides the Hippocratic oath

As a naive pediatric resident, I couldn't believe it when the surgeon called back and said we don't treat those kinds of patients.

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. July 16, 2008
Ask Pablo

Follow these simple tips and you can drive your sky-high gasoline bill back down to earth.

By Pablo Päster July 14, 2008
Where have you gone, Marcus Welby?

Family doctors are a dying breed that is not being revived by medical students. This is the healthcare crisis the candidates should be talking about.

By Robert Burton July 8, 2008
A deluge waiting to happen

Nature will do as nature does, but humans are to blame for the deadly Midwestern floods.

By Katharine Mieszkowski July 3, 2008
Can't Darwin and God get along?

Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.

By Vincent Rossmeier July 1, 2008
Anti-science conservatives must be stopped

Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.

By Joseph Romm June 30, 2008
Ask Pablo

What is the environmental fallout of fireworks?

By Pablo Päster June 30, 2008
Stop the noise!

When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?

By Katharine Mieszkowski June 25, 2008
Slick John McCain and the offshore oil ruse

The safety and economics of offshore drilling are distractions from the much larger challenges that humanity faces: Climate change and peak oil.

By Andrew Leonard June 25, 2008
Ask Pablo

It was 20 years ago that Congress heard the first serious warning about global warming. What can individuals do now?

By Pablo Päster June 23, 2008
Healthcare needs you

Ask not what healthcare can do for you but what you can do, with incentives, for healthcare.

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. June 19, 2008
Gambling with science

Determined to defeat lawsuits over addiction, the casino industry is funding research at a Harvard-affiliated lab.

By Eliza Strickland June 16, 2008
Old McDonald had a pharm

And genetically modified his goats and chickens to produce drugs for humans. But hold on. Should we be doing this to animals?

By Elizabeth Svoboda June 11, 2008
Ask Pablo

I'm planning my summer vacation. Is it more ecological to fly or drive?

By Pablo Päster June 9, 2008
Waterlogged

"Bottlemania" author Elizabeth Royte explains how one of life's necessities became an extravagance, denounced by environmentalists and nuns alike.

By Katharine Mieszkowski June 7, 2008
Killing the wolves again

Bringing the wolves back to the Rockies has been a huge success story. So why are we allowed to gun them down?

By Katharine Mieszkowski May 27, 2008
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of fat kids

With childhood obesity at alarming rates, movie tie-ins to fast food are irresponsible. An open letter to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. May 21, 2008
Ask Pablo

Termites! Is there a way to get rid of them without turning my house into a gas chamber?

By Pablo Päster May 19, 2008
Celebrate clean coal, come on!

The coal industry has turned up the heat on its ad campaign and apparently McCain, Clinton and Obama are buying.

By Diane Silver May 15, 2008
Brain scam

Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?

By Robert Burton May 12, 2008
Luxury community of "conscience"

When the locals cried green-wash, the elite developer cried class envy. Welcome to Paradise Valley.

By Fred Haefele May 3, 2008
Race and the white coat

Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?

By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. April 22, 2008
When bananas ruled the world

Intrigue. Power. Corruption. Death. Sex. The history of oil has nothing on that of the yellow fruit.

By Katharine Mieszkowski April 19, 2008
Getting it on for science

Bonobo porn, MRI sex, female Viagra. "Bonk" author Mary Roach on the scientific quest to understand arousal -- and how little we still know.

By Katharine Mieszkowski April 4, 2008