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Watch out for the snowballs, Your Holiness.
A new study shows that carbs were essential in human brain development. Pass the French fries, scientists!
Our oceans hold a lot of unharnessed energy. Here's one way to capture it.
You toss your glass bottles in the recycling without a second thought -- but where do they end up? Umbra digs in to a national dilemma.
Choosing hand sanitizers over the old scrub-and-rinse may conserve water, but it might not banish germs, either. Umbra digs up the dirt.
The deforestation nightmare in Indonesia is choking thousands and making climate change worse.
SolarCity installed arrays of panels made by inmates who earned just 93 cents an hour.
In a study of almost 2,000 kids in El Paso, Texas, researchers found a strong correlation between air pollution and academic performance.
A new study traces how California's energy conservation programs play out differently depending on the wealth of the recipients.