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Charles Benbrook on the mistakes made in the approval of the first genetically engineered crops—and what we can learn from them

Latest From Our Newsroom

Courthouse headlines with hog farms, Monsanto, and Big Oil; must-read collaborations; and World Elephant Day!

Environmental advocates are getting a strong whiff of justice from American courthouses lately, and oddly, the victories smell worse than the setbacks.

We are in something of a race… a race against time and depletion.

Male starlings were less attracted­­­—and more aggressive—to females given antidepressants. Study is the latest to suggest drug-tainted wastewater is messing with wildlife.

Studies conducted in the late 1970s and early 1980s were kept under wraps by chemical companies as pollution spread across the US, according to an editorial published today

If environmental advocates really expect a seismic shift in party sympathies in the midterm elections, they'd do well to look away, look away from Dixieland. It's a mess.

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Male starlings were less attracted—and more aggressive—to females given antidepressants. Study is the latest to suggest drug-tainted wastewater is messing with wildlife.