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In drought conditions, consolidating water systems brings out ugly politics.
About 5,500 glaciers could disappear or drastically retreat by the end of the century with severe impacts on farming and hydropower, say scientists.
When well-off white people flee to the suburbs, it's bad for those left behind in inner cities and bad for the environment too.
A reader wants to know whether "single stream" recycling is more efficient than the usual sort-paper-and-plastic approach. Umbra digs up the answer.
Birds that are threatened by climate change are now showing up in new locations -- on rolldown gates, apartment building walls, and stoops.
With the right "push-pull" planting combos, African farmers can ward off pests, fertilize crops, feed animals, and even withstand drought.
Heat records are being broken across the Western U.S.
The railroad industry says 2014 was its safest year on record -- but a close look at the numbers isn't going to make you feel very safe.
The majority of women in Texas encounter some sort of barrier to accessing reproductive healthcare.
