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With the right "push-pull" planting combos, African farmers can ward off pests, fertilize crops, feed animals, and even withstand drought.
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.
Heat records are being broken across the Western U.S.
The polar bears are even saving frozen dolphin for later.
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.
In a step it hasn't taken since the 1970s, the state water board tells key rights holders, including municipalities and water districts, to draw less H2O.
