Unjust and Dysfunctional: Asylum in the UK
In its current, intensely bureaucratic form, the asylum process – particularly for people who are frightened of official agencies with their endless forms and impersonal approach – is at best intimidating, at worse dysfunctional.
Japanese Hunters Evade Sea Shepherd, Kill Hundreds of Whales
The whalers expanded their hunting grounds in the Southern Ocean to make it difficult for the environmentalists to intercept them.
FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food
The federal agency already tests for residues of many agricultural chemicals on food. Now it will include the widely used weed killer linked to cancer.
Meat Is Murdering American Rivers
Government data shows that food processing plants are the biggest toxic polluters of waterways in the U.S.
Nickel and Dimed in 2016
It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line. You can't earn a living on the minimum wage.
3 Reasons Flint’s Water Is Poisoned
Is Flint simply the story of a callous, politically motivated and irresponsible group of state and federal officials looking the other way? Is this story a one-off?
Portland to Be Home to World’s First Vegan Supermarket Chain
Veganz is the world's first all-vegan supermarket chain. By the end of 2016 they will have 14 stores open around the world.
Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order.
Affordable Grocery Store Goes Organic And Bans Toxic Chemicals From Their Products
Aldi currently only has select stores open in the US, but roughly 500 more stores will be built in the US over the next two years as part of a $3 billion expansion.
An Animal Has Died at SeaWorld Every Month Since November
Thirty-eight orcas and at least 58 belugas have died on SeaWorld’s watch, along with more than a hundred dolphins.