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Randy Schekman, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in medicine, says access to affordable, publicly supported higher education was crucial to his success. Can today's scientific talent even afford to pursue a career like his?
A suitcase, a kid, your grandmother -- these are all things that can be carted around with a cargo bike. Here are the pictures to prove it.
As more oil is being shipped by rail across North America, more oil is being spilled from trains.
New research shows that global warming denial is partly fueled by negative treatment of scientists in conservative media.
The agriculture giant has a variety solutions for mitigating and adapting to global warming.
Wyoming's Bureau of Land Management held a sale for the lease of 148 million tons of coal that received not a single bid, a first in state history.
China's industrial behemoth hasn't just fouled up the vast nation's water; it's also taken a big bite out of its land.
She argues that mainstream environmentalists are too tied to the neoliberal agenda to embrace the huge shifts needed to tackle climate change.
Pipelines are sagging and snapping. Chemical tanks are toppling over. Oil and gas wells are inundated. As if the floods haven't caused enough tragedy already.