MoJo Audio: Rose George
British writer Rose George on the disposal of human waste and her new book, The Big Necessity. —By Jen Phillips

The EPA's Head Environmentalist
Obama's pick for EPA administrator will have to turn around a serious environmental crisis. —By Eddie Scher

Q&A: Majora Carter
The MacArthur-winning "environmental racism" fighter talks about green ghettoes and the need for a new Work Projects Administration-style project on the Gulf Coast. —By Kiera Butler

Word of the Year: Hypermiling
The eco-term "hypermiling" has been immortalized by the New Oxford American Dictionary. —By Dave Gilson

Mini Nuke Plants To Power Homes
Miniature nuclear reactors will be used to power 20,000 homes.  —By Julia Whitty

Seven Myths of Energy Independence
Why forging a sustainable energy future is dependent on foreign oil. —By Paul Roberts

Conspiracy Watch: Three Gorges Dam
Virgin Airlines: Powered by Pond Scum?
Book Review: A Nuclear Family Vacation
Behind the Hydrogen Hype, a Hybrid Highway
Power Q&A: Bill Weihl

New Hooks Save Turtles
Switching out the classic J hooks for circular hooks saves turtles from drowning in longline fisheries. —By Julia Whitty

Deep Ecology: An Open-Sea Experiment
The 13th Tipping Point: 12 Climate Disasters and 1 Powerful Antidote
Thought whaling was a thing of the past? Think again.
Oceans and the Media: Interview with Christina Reed

Carbon Into Gold
The Lieberman-Warner emissions bill crashed and burned. Now get ready for industry’s phoenix: Carbon offsets. —By Josh Harkinson

The Nuclear Option
How Green Was My Rally?
A Hundred Katrinas: Climate Change and the Threat to the U.S. Coast
How to Argue with a Global Warming Denier

Party Favors
A late-term ploy by the Bush team is giving oil and gas developers right-of-way on millions of acres of public land. —By Keith Kloor

How to Fix It: Stop Leasing Public Lands at Fire-Sale Prices
Bush's Biggest Achievements
Pork Power States
Off-Road Rules: Timber, Mining and Off-Road-Vehicle Lobbyists Advocate Staking Road Claims All Over the West
Will the Bush Administration's New Nukes Program Bomb?

Palin's Boon for Big Oil
If elected vice president Palin will be positioned to deliver what the industry wants most—access to untapped Arctic terrain. —By James Ridgeway

Update: Green Spies, Black Ops
Put a Tyrant in Your Tank
Mr. Clean: Accused of Poisoning Indonesian Villagers, Rick Ness Tries to Prove His Innocence
Mr. Match.com Pimps Solar
Scrubbing King Coal

Deliver Us From Plastic
A 16-year-old as part of a science fair project figured out a way to break down the polymers in plastic bags faster. —By Casey Miner

The Last Empire
Louisiana's Mulch Madness
Why Carbon Offsets Backfire
Should You Ditch Your Chemical Mattress?
Lead Astray: What Happens When an American Company Offshores Pollution?

March of the Tourists
Polar Earth is thawing. Does it matter if the visiting hordes don't understand? —By Julia Whitty

Ha, Wilderness! Yellowstone Circa 2011
Loaded for Bear
By 2100, Half of All Species May be Extinct. Who Will Survive?
Oil Spills are Forever
On Thin Ice: Polar Bears Face Almost Certain Extinction

The Luxury of True Choice
Would Sarah Palin support subsidized child care and higher ed for teen moms poorer than Bristol? —By Judith Lewis

When Chick Flicks Get Knocked Up
Suffragette City: Pro-Life Feminists
Over-the-Counter Insurgency
Does Everyone Have the Right to a Baby? And Who Pays When Nature Won't Work?

Tuna Surprise
The Bush FDA helped industry suppress the bad news about mercury. Still want fish for dinner? —By Stephanie Mencimer

What Is Nutraloaf, Anyway?
Heritage Foundation on Hunger: Let Them Eat Broccoli
How a California Program Turns Farmworkers into Organic Farmers
The Chain Never Stops: The Writer of Fast Food Nation Tackles the Meatpacking Industry
Eat American: Food Aid Made in the U.S.A.

Immune to Reason
Are vaccine deniers putting children at risk? —By Arthur Allen

Strains of Resistance
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
The Chill Pill: Would a Dem White House Take on Big Pharma?
When Pharmaceuticals Seduce Mental Health Officials, the Burden Falls on Young Patients
Congress vs. Big Pharma: Let the Games Begin

Medicare's Poison Pill
Remember Bush's signature health care initiative? My life depends on it—and that's not very reassuring. —By James Ridgeway

The Pentagon's PTSD Denial
Toxic Smoke and Mirrors
How to Fix It: Build a Bigger, Better Medicare
Books: Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids
How the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Became Law

Chinavore's Dilemma
Pathogenic snacks. Deadly dog chow. Toxic seafood. Why is the FDA looking the other way on Chinese food imports? —By Joshua Kurlantzick

This Is Your Brain on Cell Phones
How We Almost Blew Up Ohio
Airline Insecurity
Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee
Post-Katrina Aftermath: How the Labor Department Fell Down on the Job

A Return to Reason
How to kick out the flat-Earthers and let the nerds reign after Bush's eight-year trashing of science agencies. —By Chris Mooney

Exhibit: Forever Young
A Bitter Leaf
Your Mileage May Vary
Bottom of the Barrel
Nuclear's Lucky Number