A used-car salesman fires up his lonely lot with a mobile kitchen that's attracting a steady stream of customers. ...more

February 22, 2009

When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn't a canary. It's a purple finch. ...more

February 11, 2009

Financial Emergency On Back Of Taxpayers I have an urgent financial emergency. Is the patient still breathing? Yes, but it's very shallow. Does the patient still have a heartbeat? Yes, but it's very weak. What about the color of the lips? They're blue. Where do you live? On Main Street, America? Please send help quick. OK, just one more question: are you a liberal or conservative? Oh God, please spare me (click). ...more

September 21, 2008

In the spring of 2007 contaminated pet food killed thousands of cats and dogs in America. "Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine," a new book by Marion Nestle, one of America's leading scholars of food politics, provides a vivid and detailed account of the affair and its aftermath. ...more

September 14, 2008

Equipped with a quick lesson on listening and a flashlight, 10-year-old Megan Birnholz wandered into the darkness with 40 or so folks of like mind. ...more

September 3, 2008

The woman made a lasting impression on Stacey Efaw, not because she was crying when she walked through the doors of the Brandon Emergency Care Help Organization, but because her hands were empty. ...more

August 20, 2008

A relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated summer sea ice would be gone in five years. ...more

December 12, 2007

An explosion almost certainly caused by a buildup of methane gas tore through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least 63 miners in what has become a deadly pattern in the mining industries of the former Soviet Union. ...more

November 19, 2007