Russ McBee

Every year, agricultural runoff from Midwestern states pumps extraordinary amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mississippi River. These chemicals collect at the mouth of the river, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. This causes a dead zone in the Gulf, in which low oxygen levels decimate marine life, rendering it devoid of ...

Until recently, a woman named Chris Comer had served for nine years as the state science curriculum director for the Texas Education Agency. She was fired for forwarding an email and merely adding the phrase ''FYI.'' Unfortunately for Ms. Comer and the schoolchildren of Texas, the subject of the email was a presentation to be given by a ...