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The Key to Addressing Climate Change – Indigenous Knowledge
The precipitous rise in the world’s human population and humankind’s...
Judge Refuses to Shut Down Online Market for Used MP3s
A one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital-music files got a legal boost late Monday when a federal judge refused to shutter it at the request of Capitol Records...
Obama Unleashes His Super PAC
Last night, President Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, sent out...
California Prop 8 ruling on gay marriage overturned
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday ruled...
Why the U.S. Government Won’t Protect Us From Toxic Chemicals In...
In 1985, “We are the World” won song of the year, The Goonies and Back to the Future lit up the silver screen, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would assess the health risks of dioxins...
Study credits ‘app economy’ with 500,000 U.S. jobs
The surge in mobile software and other apps has also led to a surge in jobs, almost half a million just in the U.S., estimates a study out today from CEO network TechNet...
The great carbon bubble: Why the fossil-fuel industry fights so hard
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet — as we shall see — it’...
Romney’s Big Win in Nevada: Does It Matter?
Surprising almost no one, Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses on...
Is Today’s Beef Better For The Environment?
The American beef industry has taken a bit of a beating in recent years. Beef has been linked to heart disease and cancer and hamburgers have been recalled. We're also often told that cattle require a lot of precious food and water to make tender steaks...
iPhone soaks up 75 percent of all mobile phone profits
Though it holds only around 9 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple raked in 75 percent of all profits across the industry last quarter, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu...
Tebow says he might run for office one day
If being an NFL quarterback doesn’t work out for Denver Broncos...
