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The so-called "Hail Mary" to save Sen. Mary Landrieu's political hide is a pointless Kabuki dance.
ProPublica's interactive 50-state map is the best tour guide yet for this increasingly common hazard of North America's energy boom.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
The retail behemoth gets a lot of good press for putting up a few solar panels, but it gets far more electricity from coal than from the sun.
Before advocating for men to take some reproductive responsibility, we set out to confirm that their options don't suck.
A new study from Yale -- the largest of its kind -- shows a correlation between living near a fracking site and having health problems.
Recife, Brazil, has taken a shockingly non-hysterical approach to reducing shark attacks. Fly fishers everywhere call it catch-and-release.
Could improving public health help curb climate change?