This Likely GOP Presidential Candidate Actually Believes in Global Warming
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a potential contender for the Republican presidential nomination, thinks climate change is real and caused—at least in part—by human activity, according to...
View ArticleKayaktavists Take Over Seattle's Port to Protest Shell Oil's Arctic Drilling Rig
This article is being updated as news breaks. See below for the latest.Seattleites took a dramatic stand, er paddle, against Arctic oil drilling on Saturday afternoon. Against the backdrop of the...
View ArticleThe 85-Year-Old Nun Who Went to Prison for Embarrassing the Feds Is Finally Free
Sister Megan Rice, the 85-year-old activist nun who two years ago humiliated government officials by penetrating and vandalizing a supposedly ultra-high-security uranium storage facility, has finally...
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School Lunches Just Got Way Better in These 6 Cities (and It's Not the Food)
School lunches may be healthier than when you were a kid, but the wasteful and polluting materials that cafeterias serve them on have actually gotten worse. In an effort to save on labor and equipment...
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Obama's Plan to Save the Monarch Butterflies' Epic Migration
Earlier this week, amid negotiating major trade deals and joining Twitter, Obama put forth a major infrastructure project: a highway for monarch butterflies.That's right, monarch butterflies. The...
View ArticleSan Francisco Moves to Require Health Warnings on Soda Ads
Sugar has invaded just about every part of our diet (Americans consume an estimated five times the amount of added sugar recommended by the World Health Organization), and it's making us sick. Too much...
View ArticleWell, Well, Well, Look Who Just Endorsed a Bold Fix For Climate Change
Oil companies are pretty much the last ally you'd think of when it comes to advancing big-picture solutions to climate change. These are the companies, after all, whose product is responsible for...
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EPA: Fracking Doesn't Pose "Widespread, Systemic" Danger to Drinking Water
The Environmental Protection Agency today released a long-awaited draft report on the impact of fracking on drinking water supplies. The analysis, which drew on peer-reviewed studies as well as state...
View Article17 Years After Viagra, the Female Viagra May Finally Be Here
A contentious effort to introduce a sex-drive drug for women may be nearing a climax. After rejecting "the pink Viagra" (AKA flibanserin) twice in the past five years, a Federal Drug Administration...
View ArticleThe 4 Excuses People Use to Justify Eating Meat
There are plenty of reasons to stop eating meat: Fears over growing numbers of terrifying superbugs that have sprung out of our antibiotic-ridden meat supply, objections to the horrifying conditions...
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The American Medical Association Just Voted to End Personal Vaccination...
The American Medical Association, the country's largest association of physicians, is weighing in on the vaccination debate by supporting the end of personal vaccination exemptions on both the state...
View ArticleThe Big Source of Pollution That No One Talks About
When most of us think about air pollution, we imagine smog emanating from cars, trucks, and power plants. But oceangoing ships are also a major source of pollution around the world, and according to a...
View ArticleMaps: The Poorest Areas in America Are Often the Most Polluted
The environmental justice movement has been fighting the hazards and toxins disproportionately affecting poor communities of color for decades. Now it has a new tool.The US Environmental Protection...
View ArticleIs the Leading Nutrition Science Group in Big Food's Pocket?
Figuring out whom to trust for nutritional advice can be a daunting task; new findings on everything from the dangers of sugar to the health benefits of leftover pasta seem to come out every day, and...
View ArticleDear Rick Santorum: Sorry, the Pope Actually Did Study Science. So He Might...
"I am not a scientist!" is now the standard escape hatch through which Republican climate deniers slither to avoid talking about climate science or evolution. From Sen. Marco Rubio, asked how old the...
View Article6 Foods That Still Have Scary Amounts of Trans Fats
After years of hemming and hawing, the Food and Drug Administration has finally declared artificial trans fats a threat to public health, giving food companies until June 2018 to phase out partially...
View ArticleThis Map Shows Where the World's Water Is Drying Up
Groundwater loss isn't just a California problem: According to a recent study by researchers at NASA and the University of California-Irvine, humans are depleting more than half of the world's 37...
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Study: Flu Viruses Travel on US Roads and Railways
Viruses are hitching a ride with commuters on the nation's roads and railways, adding to the chaotic movement that makes seasonal outbreaks difficult to track and contain.In a study published Thursday...
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EPA Report Puts a Staggering Price Tag on Climate Inaction
According to a report released Monday by the Obama administration, doing nothing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions would cost the United States billions of dollars and thousands lives.The findings...
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California Water Districts Just Sued the State Over Cuts to Farmers
More MoJo coverage of the California Drought: 7 Key Facts About the Drought Invasion of the Hedge Fund Almonds California Is Literally Sinking Into the Ground Bottled Water Comes From the Most...
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