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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.

São Paulo has been invaded by giant brains

Apparently São Paulo, Brazil still has public phone booths — or at least it did. Now, thanks to the Call Parade public art project, it has giant brains, disco balls, can-can dancers, and miniature cities. One hundred artists have transformed 100 phone booths to add some whimsy to the city, and/or attract zombies.

New NASA time-lapse video makes Earth look almost as cool as Mars

Mars is the star of the news cycle right now, but this new time-lapse video of Earth from the International Space Station kind of gives the Red Planet a run for its money.

For this cat, learning to surf is a survival skill

I’m really hoping this is a glimpse of evolution in action — like, over thousands of years, the cats that know how to work surfboards will be more likely to survive dog attacks and live long enough to breed, and in a few millennia we’ll have a race of semi-aquatic feline surfer dudes.