The Water Crisis: Every Last Drop Counts

Thanks largely to unsafe drinking water, more than 2 million children die of diarrhea each year. Six hundred million subsistence farmers lack irrigation water and are mired in poverty. Wetlands have been decimated in Europe, North America, and Asia, and fish populations are...

Chicago outlines plan to slash greenhouse gases

"The mayor of Chicago announced a plan Thursday to dramatically slash emissions of heat-trapping gases as part of an effort to become one of the greenest cities in the United States. The plan calls for greenhouses to be cut to three-fourths of 1990 levels by 2020 and to...

Detecting Pollution with Living Biosensors

Microbes are our friends; genetically engineered to glow flourescently and provide cheap and fast detection of contaminants, from oil spills to food supplies. If they keep these things out of the food supply, we'll be fine; I like technology, but I don't want my organic...