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Late-summer 2014 has brought uncomfortable news for residents of the U.S. Southwest — and I'm not just talking about 109-degree heat.
Here are five things you should do if you’re ever unlucky enough to be hit. And a shining example of what not to do.
Activists around the country are shaping public decisions -- and reshaping their communities for the better.
ProPublica's interactive 50-state map is the best tour guide yet for this increasingly common hazard of North America's energy boom.
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.
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Radical Mycology cofounder Peter McCoy thinks mushrooms hold the secret to human and environmental health. He may be on to something.
