States and localities nationwide voted on a host hot-button food and agriculture issues. The outcomes have major implications for policy — and your dinner plate.

Climate deniers won a slew of races across the country, fueled by big spending from fossil fuel interests such as the Koch brothers.

The Republican wave of election victories was more about changing the rules of democracy to favor big business and conservative interest groups, than a reflection of the American people's opinions.

We've rounded up some reporting on Sandy's aftermath.

A Republican-controlled Senate could not only threaten the EPA, it could also reverse the environmental gains we've recently made.

Dire warnings about sky-high electricity bills haven't come true.

A research team recently returned from a visit to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and were “utterly shocked” by how it had grown since their last trip in 2009.

Readers respond to our report on micro-living.

An accidentally released court filing reveals how one company secretly gave money to a nonprofit that helped get favorable mining legislation passed.

To avoid catastrophe, we must seize corporate polluters’ wealth. And to do that, we must change everything.