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Experiments by Google, Environmental Defense Fund, and university scientists reveal the huge amounts of methane that leak from pipelines beneath some cities.
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.
Since government won't monitor whether the oil-and-gas boom is wrecking air quality, volunteers have stepped in. Now their work is getting peer-reviewed and published.
If you're driving through the tightly packed residential neighborhood in south central L.A., you're liable to miss the whole operation.
Double Up Food Bucks is one idea that's working to get better food onto the plates of the people who most need it. Come talk with us and the people behind it.
Oil giants are now trying to present themselves as poverty fighters and defenders of human wellbeing.
The outdoor outfitter has cooked up a green alternative to non-biodegradable, resource-intensive neoprene. But no, it's not going to get you high.
Political scientist Brendan Nyhan explains why fact-checking keeps candidates honest … sometimes.
