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In 2011, citizens of Boulder, CO, opted to explore alternatives to their monopoly, corporate electric utility that pumps coal-fired energy...
Science journalist Deborah Blum explores the homicidal -- and, the environmental -- ways that chemistry can do us in.
The Tea Party senator thinks slashing taxes is the solution to Detroit's woes (as well as every other problem in the country). Actually, it's not.
Voters in Boulder, Colo., spurned Xcel Energy's big-money campaign and pushed toward a plan to create a publicly owned, renewably powered utility.
Clothing companies think by outsourcing manufacturing, they've also outsourced responsibility. They're wrong.
Bjorn Lomborg thinks Africa just needs more fossil fuels. Luckily, Africans already know what's best for them.
A chance encounter on a New York City street -- and a plate of Kentucky Fried Chicken -- changed one man's life for good.
Mass protests over green space in Turkey posed a significant threat to the ruling party, and other countries have begun to feel the heat as well.
The Arctic ice floats on the ocean, the Antarctic ice over land and sea, meaning that they melt different. But they're both melting.