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A new tool lets you see how hot it's going to get in your neck of the woods if we don't do anything about climate change.

John Upton Climate & Energy

In Texas, some small-town sleuths on the illegally ditched-sofa beat are stumbling on big-time dumping of toxic fracking waste.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy

Once upon a time, this super-plant may have geoengineered the planet. Now scientists want to sequence its genome to learn its secret.

Amelia Urry Technology

Wait – shh – did you hear that? It’s the sound of biking women around the world saying, “Enough of this BS.”

Eve Andrews Culture

Behold the next coming of Van Jones -- or rather “Vans” Jones: Lil B the Based God.

Brentin Mock Culture

A reader wonders whether she can ditch her car. Umbra offers some wheely good advice.

Ask Umbra® Culture

World's largest indoor amusement park included.

Eve Andrews Cities

These women love bikes as much as they love skirts -- and don't think the two need to be mutually exclusive.

Samantha Larson Culture

The GOP wants to cut EPA funding and block the agency from regulating CO2, while steering some of that money to firefighting efforts.

Heather Smith Climate & Energy

"A Will for the Woods" follows a cancer patient looking for a way to connect with nature in death.

Darby Minow Smith Culture

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