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Star Wars movies have always leaned heavily on nature to get their point across -- but the new one adds a surprising type of landscape to the mix.
Those hoping the new prime minister will be a climate champion willing to fix the damage done by his predecessor, Stephen Harper, could be in for a reality check.
White House officials helped craft a deal Republicans wouldn't be able to stop -- and the effort required major political capital.
This video explains how climate-induced changes in flowering cycles could make for pollination trouble.
Who's to blame for last year's devastating fires in Indonesia -- big corporations? Small farmers? Or an endangered feudal system?
Merchants aren't passing the cost along to consumers, and that means the tax might not reduce soda consumption as supporters intended.
An open-source project in California is putting cheap air-quality test stations on school roofs and other locations.
Sure, sending trash far away burns more carbon than recycling it locally. But recycling it far away still beats trashing it. Umbra sorts the tradeoffs.
A new poll suggests that school lunches are actually getting less terrible.