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Could the Chevy Volt Really Help Reduce Global Warming? JMRosenfeld/Flickr

Could the Chevy Volt Really Help Reduce Global Warming?

As the car darling of the 2011 Detroit auto show, can this electric vehicle change American driving habits?

Bill Ruckelshaus on EPA: 'Battered Agency Syndrome?' Wikimedia

Bill Ruckelshaus on EPA: 'Battered Agency Syndrome?'

The founding administrator of the EPA is concerned about the agency's work now that the Republicans have assumed control of the House

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Four Million Test-Tube Babies and Counting

This week the scientific father of the test-tube baby won the Nobel. A look at how in vitro fertilization has affected parenthood.

UPDATE: 'Flopenhagen' & the Small Islands

The small island states that could slowly go underwater from climate change had mixed reactions to the weak international accord that came out…

Canaries in the Climate Change Coal Mines?

Like canaries in the coalmines of yore, low-lying islands in the midst of the world's vast oceans face the possibility of extinction. Rising waters…

A Nobel Prize for the Hokey Pokey?

"Put your right hand in, put your right hand out..." Okey dokey. Before you "wiggle all about," how about a moment of silence for the Hokey Pokey…

Navigating the Mammography Maze, Part II

PART 1: Miscommunicating the Mammography Message. The recent blitz of media coverage of controversial new mammography screening guidelines from an…

Deviled Eggs for Thanksgiving?

Don't get me wrong. I love deviled eggs on a Fourth of July picnic. But I can't imagine eating them on Thanksgiving when I'm stuffing myself with,…

Miscommunicating the Mammography Message (Part 1)

A new public opinion poll out today shows a backlash among American women against controversial new breast cancer screening recommendations.…

Take the Metrobús in Mexico City

With hopes largely dashed for completing a comprehensive global climate change treaty agreement in Copenhagen next month, the spotlight will shift…

Girls, Women and Double Dutch

I remember jumping Double Dutch on the sidewalk outside my house in West Covina, CA, with my best friend Chrissie Mallon and my middle sister Shelly,…

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