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Climate hawks stress that climate science is "settled," but that's misleading. There are still lots of uncertainties around climate, scientific and otherwise, and we have to learn to live with them.
National politics tends to suck up all the attention. But a battle going on in Arizona could have a huge effect on the future of solar power.
Predictions that the Rio summit would fail became a self-fulfilling prophesy, says one young activist. But that failure can also be a catalyst for change.
North American black bears have the largest relative brain size of all carnivores, and apparently they are capable of using...
Bill and Melinda Gates host the Super Bowl for the toilet of the future, inspiring some seriously space-age concraptions.
If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a “rule” that precludes distributed renewable energy projects from supplying more than 15% of...
After Wall Street popularized the term “mortgage-backed securities” in their destruction of the economy in 2008, you could be forgiven...
In a recent New York Times diatribe, columnist Roger Cohen called organics an "elitist, pseudoscientific indulgence shot through with hype." We beg to differ.
The presidential candidates are sparring over the dirtiest of fossil fuels, but the debate isn't nearly as straightforward as it seems.
