In justifying its decision to revoke the environmental clearance for a huge 1,050 MW coal plant the Indian National Green Tribunal (NGT) described its original approval as 'smacking of non-application of mind.' I couldn't agree more.

With record high temperatures and near record drought afflicting large parts of the United States, our political leaders, even Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, are strangely silent on the question of whether climate change might be responsible.

Pollution prevention, efficiency, conservation, reuse, doing things locally and in a distributed and decentralized manner are all core principles for moving forward with water and other natural resources.

Every Republican running for the U.S. Senate in November believes either that human activity is not the driving force behind global warming or that the planet isn't even heating up, according to a recent survey.

No one is focusing on how we may look back at the oil spill as a defining moment in shaping environmental strategy and energy policy for years to come.

Originally published on The Green Fork. I've been working on a broad range of food and environmental issues since 2005, but food politics became espe...

Real innovation in the agriculture world may not be the stuff of spliced genes and petrochemicals but a better understanding of time-tested methods of food production, like compost and worms.