Lawyer Who Beat Chevron in Ecuador Faces Trial of His Own

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Steven Donzinger won a judgment against Chevron for fouling the environment in Ecuador. Steven R. Donziger — environmental hero or charlatan, depending on whom you talk to — is one of the toughest lawyers around,...

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Pfizer Settles a Drug Marketing Case for $491 Million

The drug maker Pfizer agreed to pay $491 million to settle criminal and civil charges over the illegal marketing of the kidney-transplant drug Rapamune, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press, via Associated...

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Fight Over Plan for Natural Gas Port Off Long Island

In that area, Liberty Natural Gas, an energy company, hopes to build and operate what would be the first delivery port for liquefied natural gas in New York State, and one of just a few in the country. The company, along with its supporters, argues...

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A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA

CLEWISTON, Fla. — The call Ricke Kress and every other citrus grower in Florida dreaded came while he was driving. "It's here" was all his grove manager needed to say to force him over to the side of the road. The disease that sours oranges and...

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Texas Monthly: Maybe Animals Just Need Quality Time With Friends

Christopher Kelly for The Texas Tribune Louis Dorfman, a self-taught animal behaviorist, at the International Exotic Animal Sanctuary. At the sight of human visitors, the adult lion rose from his slumber and prowled to the front of a wooded enclosure...

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James Gordon Dies at 85; Work Paved Way for Laser

Distinguished Columbia University physicists, some of them Nobel Prize winners, called it a "harebrained scheme." But James P. Gordon, principal builder of a refrigerator-size device that would help revolutionize modern life, believed in it enough...

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Number of Catfish Inspectors Drives a Debate on Spending

WASHINGTON — Deep-fried catfish served with a side of hush puppies and coleslaw has been a regional specialty for years and a cash crop for states in the Deep South. Now, catfish is at the heart of a dispute as the House and Senate prepare to work...

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George Mitchell, a Pioneer in Hydraulic Fracturing, Dies at 94

George P. Mitchell, the son of a Greek goatherd who capped a career as one of the most prominent independent oilmen in the United States by unlocking immense natural gas and petroleum resources trapped in shale rock formations, died on Friday in Galveston,...

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Virginia Johnson, Widely Published Collaborator in Sex Research, Dies at 88

George Tames/The New York Times Sex researchers William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson interviewed a couple at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis in 1969. Virginia E. Johnson, a writer, researcher and sex therapist who...

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Op-Ed Contributor: High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics

SAN FRANCISCO — WHEN the police arrived last November at the ransacked mansion of the millionaire investor Raveesh Kumra, outside of San Jose, Calif., they found Mr. Kumra had been blindfolded, tied and gagged. The robbers took cash, rare coins and...

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Louisiana Agency Sues Dozens of Energy Companies for Damage to Wetlands

Mario Tama/Getty Images Wetlands in Barataria Bay, La., in 2011. Louisiana officials filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against dozens of energy companies, hoping that the courts will force them to pay for decades of damage to fragile coastal wetlands...

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Fort Tells of Spain’s Early Ambitions

By Jeffery DelViscio, Pedro Rafael Rosado, Kriston Lewis, Robin Lindsay, Abe Sater and Michael Mason Could the South Have Gone to Spain?: John Wilford discusses newly uncovered Fort San Juan, a Spanish outpost dating back to the 1500s. In the...

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