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Now that Californians can get fined $500-a-day for overwatering their lawns, businesses that paint lawns green are expanding.
Is the Upper East Side surpassing Brooklyn in coolness, as some commentators claim? No, and here's why.
Climate change mitigation and adaptation are often discussed as though they are interchangeable. They are not.
The latest draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change centers on a really scary word: irreversible.
And you were worried he wasn't taking the crisis seriously enough.
On Oct. 1, Massachusetts institutions producing more than a ton of leftovers a week must donate the scraps instead of dumping them.
After calls for voluntary conservation didn't work, the drought-stricken state is cracking down on profligate water use.
The latest polls show that Americans still just don't get it. But public opinion has always lagged on important issues.
Wisconsin’s Scott Walker, Florida’s Rick Scott, and Maine’s Paul LePage were all vulnerable -- and they all triumphed anyway.