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Urban Harvest

Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. Table of Contents | Digital Edition
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Today OnEarth: Peak Everything, the 20-Million-Year-Old Lake, Dead Dolphins
By The Editors | onearth blog
February 7, 2012: Running out: A special report published today looks at the inevitable resource crunch as the rapidly growing global middle class starts demanding Western levels of consumption. Call it "Peak Everything" as supplies of goods -- from water to oil to... READ MORE >
Gut Check: Growing Evidence That Chemicals Can Sabotage Your Diet
By Laura Fraser | onearth blog
February 6, 2012: The idea that environmental chemicals may be contributing to the obesity epidemic -- once pooh-poohed by many obesity researchers as an excuse to blame something other than willpower -- is quickly gaining credence in academic and policy circles. For... READ MORE >
Mapping Energy Use in the Big Apple
By Ben Jervey | onearth blog
February 6, 2012: New York City has a lot of buildings, each with its own style of energy consumption. To get a better sense of the city’s power use, Columbia University engineers mapped out its buildings’ energy consumption. Even though cities -- especially dense... READ MORE >
Today OnEarth: Eco-Robots, EVs for Aliens, Was the Super Bowl Green?
By The Editors | onearth blog
February 6, 2012: False start: The NFL bought 15,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy certificates to offset the Super Bowl’s massive electricity usage and tout it as the "greenest yet." Unfortunately, skeptics note: "They are not helping build new projects, and... READ MORE >
Fish Feud: The Right to Know about GMO
By Wendy Gordon | smarter living
February 3, 2012: Consumers in California apparently don’t have the right to know if they are buying genetically engineered foods. The California Assembly recently voted down the Consumer Right To Know Act, or AB 88, which was introduced by Jared Huffman, a Democrat... READ MORE >
Today OnEarth: Greener Pastures, Poor Piggies, Plastic: It's What's for Dinner
By The Editors | onearth blog
February 3, 2012: Pulling up stakes: Last year’s historic drought forced some of the last remaining Texas cattle ranchers to abandon their home on the range and drive their herds north to greener pastures -- and in some cases, even south of the border. Men’s Journal... READ MORE >
The Ghosts of Rocky Flats: A Meditation on Health, Regulation, and Radiation
By David Gessner | wild life
February 2, 2012: Click image to enlargeTwenty-one years ago this month, when I was twenty-nine, I learned that I had testicular cancer. As it happened I had recently returned to live in Worcester, Massachusetts, my hometown, and I joked to friends that I didn’t know... READ MORE >
Today OnEarth: 'Gasland' Goes to Jail, Fractivists Booted, Designer Ice Cubes
By The Editors | onearth blog
February 2, 2012: Snowboarder Shaun White, aka the "Flying Tomato," soars over Colorado "fractivists."  Camera shy: Josh Fox, director of the award-winning documentary Gasland, was arrested by Capitol Police yesterday while trying to film a House Science Committee... READ MORE >
A Safer Fish: NOAA Lists Atlantic Sturgeon as Endangered
By Dave Levitan | onearth blog
February 1, 2012: After years of disagreement, NOAA's Fisheries Service has decided to list the Atlantic sturgeon as an endangered species. The listing will include five distinct populations of the fish -- four are endangered, and one will be listed as threatened.The... READ MORE >
Real Climate Scientists Respond to Crappy WSJ Op-Ed by Non-Climate Scientists
By Dave Levitan | onearth blog
February 1, 2012: On Monday, I spent more than a few words excoriating the Wall Street Journal for an op-ed piece penned by a gaggle of non-climate scientists rife with conflicts of interest, who regurgitated a number of tired global warming denier arguments. Credit... READ MORE >

 
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