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Oil giants are now trying to present themselves as poverty fighters and defenders of human wellbeing.
Happily, more and more people are seeing through the hype.
If the dominant rats were further down in the tunnels, mostly submissive rats would have survived. Which could make rats nicer overall. Maybe. Probably not.
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.
A modest local effort to build a seed library in Pennsylvania calls down the wrath of the state's farm regulators.
Reacting to an uptick in fatal great white shark attacks, the country’s Conservative Party has decided to kill any shark that comes anywhere near the beach.
A copper tailings pond discharged more than 10 million cubic meters of waste into nearby water, threatening an important salmon spawning ground.
If you're driving through the tightly packed residential neighborhood in south central L.A., you're liable to miss the whole operation.
From Keystone to Ferguson, the climate march to New York's fracking ban, here are the highs and lows of a pivotal year for the planet.
