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Kobe Bryant and LeBron James use public transit at the Olympics

If the American men's Olympic basketball team can use public transportation, so can everybody else.

West Nile virus outbreak causes Dallas to declare emergency

Is climate change to blame? Hard to say. Is this a preview of coming attractions for everywhere else? Could very well be.

This couple moved all their worldly possessions using only bikes

Moving is stressful, and most of us deal with it by renting a ginormo truck, dumping our stuff in it (or bribing our buddies to dump our stuff in it), and hoping that nothing in our newspaper-packed boxes breaks. But Anthony and Jess Reiss decided to take a chance on a potentially really, really stressful […]

How to keep the 2012 drought from draining your wallet

Diminishing corn supplies could drive fuel prices up, power plants could heat up important bodies of water, and dry weather could force homes and farms to compete for water. Here's what you can do to ease the pressure.

Umbra’s second helpings: The good kind of inflation [VIDEO]

Feeling the pressure of high gas prices? Umbra's pumped to show you how properly inflated tires save oil and money.

Harry Reid slugs fossil fuels in the face

The Senate's top Democrat isn't only throwing punches at Romney. He's also got it in for climate deniers and the coal industry.

Court to FDA: 35 years is too long to procrastinate on curbing antibiotics in meat

The Food and Drug Administration found in 1977 that heavy use of antibiotics in livestock was causing problems -- and it still hasn't done anything about it.

Normal-looking trees might be actually be stuffed with methane

Diseased but healthy-looking trees might contribute as much as 10 percent of global methane emissions.

Q&A with ‘Mohawk Guy’ Bobak Ferdowsi, the new face of science

I love the fact that NASA’s dishy mohawked flight director Bobak Ferdowsi is now basically a household name, putting a human (and handsome) face on the Curiosity mission and space exploration in general. If we’re going to survive as a civilization or a species, we need to get excited about science, and it helps when […]

Great news: The world is on the brink of a massive boom in oil production

You can't spell "dystopia" without O-Y.