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GMOs are becoming a proxy for bigger concerns about the food system
Social scientists and consumer researchers say the battle over GMOs isn't really about GMOs. They say GMOs have become a stand-in for what consumers really want: less processed, natural food.
EPA rules aim to slash oil industry methane emissions
The standards would apply to new oil and natural gas production and require companies to fix equipment and practices that allow methane to leak.
Supporters of the 1855 Treaty Authority, which is independent of the state's tribal governments, plan to gather wild rice on Hole-in-the-Day Lake in Nisswa on Aug. 27.
Mpls. officials work to dampen distrust of tap water
On a tour of the water plant, Hmong visitors were impressed to learn that tap water is just as safe and tastes as good as the water they buy in a store. And it is much, much cheaper.
To measure drought's reach, researchers scale the mighty sequoia
After a scientist on a hike in Sequoia National Park saw trees with thin and browning leaves, it got scientists thinking: Did the drought cause this? So they're climbing up them to study the damage.