The main reason why there is a global water shortage is incompetent management, which causes total inflexibility in allocation--there is plenty of water, it's just used stupidly.

The UN World Water Development Report should be a timely and valuable document, butit remains entrenched in the command-and-control paradigm.

Styrene's recent listing as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" means something very different from how it is being framed by advocacy groups and the media—and this knowledge gap threatens to wreck legislative havoc across the country.

The Deepwater Horizon spill is clearly an ecological disaster, but overreaction to it could cause more environmental and economic harm than good.

Contrary to current policy approaches that focus on mitigating GHG emissions to the exclusion of everything else, resilience should be considered the default climate strategy.

DDT is still a critical weapon in the battle against malaria and other insect-borne diseases.

Nongovernmental organizations are growing in number and finding ways to survive in China, even though the country's political limits artificially restrict their growth, as they take up political issues but are not yet political actors.

Russia's continued drops in production, growing unemployment, and deeper impoverishment all converge in one economic, social, and political area: the country's 460 company towns.