Science

Fish Plundering the oceans

Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another
  • Horses to the slaughter

    U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?
  • One brief shining moment for clean energy

    Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
  • God, He's moody

    In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
  • There's no place like home!

    "Real Estate Intervention" brings tough love to homeowners while "The Lazy Environmentalist" makes going green easy
  • Why we can't eat just one

    We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
  • Auto safety for dummies

    Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
  • The seldom-seen devastation of climate change

    A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.
  • Deadly heat

    A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.
  • Withdrawal method: Not an oxymoron?

    Contraceptive researchers make a measured push for pulling out
  • Are transgender people mentally ill?

    Activists protest this week's American Psychiatric Association meeting, where debate rages over the controversial "Gender Identity Disorder"
  • Electric cars are coming!

    We're sorry to be buzz kills. But we've heard this one before. Like in 1990. And 1910. Do the automakers have the juice this time?
  • The evolutionary argument for Dr. Seuss

    Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people? A new book suggests that fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.
  • Pesticides indicted in bee deaths

    Agriculture officials have renewed their scrutiny of the world's best-selling pest-killer as they try to solve the mysterious collapse of the nation's hives.
  • Dear Wingnut, why are Republicans afraid of science?

    Our undercover conservative answers two different Salon readers who want to know why the GOP seems anti-intellectual and anti-science.
  • Stem cell division

    The growing blue state-red state gap over this research shows that science has serious economic and political muscle in America today.
  • Mask hysteria

    It doesn't matter if they don't stop swine flu. Mexicans love them anyway.
  • A-Rod isn't a cheater

    Taking steroids is only natural. It's an extension of our technological lives. So let's come down from our romantic soapboxes.
  • Understanding the deadly flu virus

    Scientists are scrambling to figure out just how alarmed we should be over the swine flu outbreak from Mexico.
  • The last great swine flu epidemic

    "This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.
  • "I am not a puzzle, I am a person"

    People with autism don't need to be "cured," argues the burgeoning "autism culture" movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
  • Obama is just blowing smoke

    The White House says it's serious about climate change. But its plan to regulate carbon emissions is doomed to fail.
  • Don't believe the fossil-fuel lies

    Joining oil companies and conservatives, the Breakthrough Institute says we can reduce emissions without raising the cost of carbon pollution. It's a fantasy.
  • Jane Goodall's animal planet

    In a surprising interview, the famous primatologist talks about her mystical experiences in the jungle and her ever-increasing passion for animal rights and cleaning up the "horrendous mess" of our environment.
  • Health agency covered up lead harm

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withheld evidence that contaminated tap water caused lead poisoning in kids.
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