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We pee out 90 percent of sucralose, and then it just hangs out in wastewater. NOT GOOD.
No one knows just how much surveillance of environmentalists takes place in the U.S. We do know there's not much penalty for getting caught.
A reader insists she can scrub circles around even a super efficient dishwasher. Umbra brushes up on the basics.
Since putting some emissions reduction pledges (don’t call them commitments!) down on paper after the climate conference in Copenhagen, countries...
The U.N.'s process grinds forward, and delegates agree on some important steps to halt deforestation, but remain allergic to bigger commitments.
More than 360,000 acres of waterfront habitat were lost between 2004 and 2009, and prairie wetlands took a beating too. Blame development and the ethanol mandate.
A ballot initiative to prevent tar-sands oil from being piped through South Portland and loaded onto ships narrowly lost, according to initial poll results.
A recount has revealed that a fracking moratorium narrowly succeeded in Broomfield, Colo., giving fracking foes a clean sweep of recent ballot measures in the state.
Never fight a land war in Asia -- unless the climate is on your side.
