Overfishing continues at a shocking rate, as countries break one environmental promise after another
By Katharine Mieszkowski Jul 1, 2009
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U.S. horses are meeting gruesome ends abroad, while the debate rages on: Are horses 1,500 pounds of food or friend?
By Megan Wilde
June 30, 2009
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Passage of the first climate bill in the House is a big first step to cut global warming. But it's not enough
By Joseph Romm
June 27, 2009
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In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
By Steve Paulson
June 24, 2009
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"Real Estate Intervention" brings tough love to homeowners while "The Lazy Environmentalist" makes going green easy
By Heather Havrilesky
June 21, 2009
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We do it for the buzz. Like drug addicts. How do we stop the constant craving?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 18, 2009
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Critics who whine Obama is outlawing big cars for dangerous compacts are riding shotgun with empty barrels.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 16, 2009
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A NASA climatologist explains why global warming is more than starving polar bears, and skeptics are simplistic.
By Peter Dizikes
June 1, 2009
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A controversial report from Kofi Annan's group says global warming is killing hundreds of thousands a year.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 30, 2009
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Contraceptive researchers make a measured push for pulling out
By Lynn Harris
May 20, 2009
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Activists protest this week's American Psychiatric Association meeting, where debate rages over the controversial "Gender Identity Disorder"
By Judy Berman
May 20, 2009
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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?
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 20, 2009
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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.
By Laura Miller
May 18, 2009
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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.
By Julia Scott
May 18, 2009
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Our undercover conservative answers two different Salon readers who want to know why the GOP seems anti-intellectual and anti-science.
By Glenallen Walken
May 11, 2009
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The growing blue state-red state gap over this research shows that science has serious economic and political muscle in America today.
By Peter Dizikes
May 11, 2009
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It doesn't matter if they don't stop swine flu. Mexicans love them anyway.
By Kurt Hollander
May 6, 2009
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Taking steroids is only natural. It's an extension of our technological lives. So let's come down from our romantic soapboxes.
By Alva Noe
May 1, 2009
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Scientists are scrambling to figure out just how alarmed we should be over the swine flu outbreak from Mexico.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 30, 2009
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"This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.
By Patrick Di Justo
April 28, 2009
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People with autism don't need to be "cured," argues the burgeoning "autism culture" movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
By Elizabeth Svoboda
April 27, 2009
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The White House says it's serious about climate change. But its plan to regulate carbon emissions is doomed to fail.
By Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
April 22, 2009
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Joining oil companies and conservatives, the Breakthrough Institute says we can reduce emissions without raising the cost of carbon pollution. It's a fantasy.
By Joseph Romm
April 22, 2009
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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.
By Steve Paulson
April 14, 2009
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withheld evidence that contaminated tap water caused lead poisoning in kids.
By Rebecca Renner
April 10, 2009
Plundering the oceans
Horses to the slaughter
One brief shining moment for clean energy
God, He's moody
There's no place like home!
Why we can't eat just one
Auto safety for dummies
The seldom-seen devastation of climate change
Deadly heat
Withdrawal method: Not an oxymoron?
Electric cars are coming!
The evolutionary argument for Dr. Seuss
Pesticides indicted in bee deaths
Dear Wingnut, why are Republicans afraid of science?
Stem cell division
Mask hysteria
A-Rod isn't a cheater
Understanding the deadly flu virus
The last great swine flu epidemic
"I am not a puzzle, I am a person"
Obama is just blowing smoke
Don't believe the fossil-fuel lies
Jane Goodall's animal planet
Health agency covered up lead harm
GigaOM Network
Joan Walsh