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A new study warns of a threat to U.K. wildlife as rising sea levels and changing weather patterns transform coastlines.
Residents of northern China lost an average of five years from their lives because the government handed out free coal from 1950 to 1980.
Most African Americans, Caribbean Americans, and African immigrants live in cities. That doesn’t mean they don’t have deep roots.
Rising food prices are one of the hidden causes of Egypt's conflict. And they'll keep fueling discontent until we come up with a better system.
New Mexicans are having to rely on trucked-in water, bears are getting antsy, desperate farmers are selling their water to frackers, and more.
In an address to her department, the secretary of the interior called climate action a "moral imperative."
I spent the past two weeks saying goodbye to my father, Jim Farrell, so instead of my usual discussion of...
Today's agribusiness patent holders have locked out innovation. The annals of maritime exploration offer a way out. Really!
Plants engineered to produce their own bug-killing toxins really have helped farmers cut the use of nastier chemical insecticides.