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CNBC host Joe Kernen marked the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy by questioning the wisdom of investing to protect utility customers from climate change.
Utility customers who were told their electricity use was being tracked as part of an experiment reduced their consumption by 2.7 percent.
The Food & Drug Administration tested 1,300 samples of rice and found arsenic in them all, but only in very small amounts.
In the new documentary, "Come Hell or High Water," a community founded by free blacks after the Civil War takes on developers and a dominant culture that refuses to acknowledge it even exists.
If wasted food were a country, it would be the world's third largest contributor to climate change, after China and the U.S.
The right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council has been pushing state bills to undermine renewable portfolio standards -- and losing.
The difference between a country’s extraction, production and consumption emissions are what we call "carbon gaps." Here's a look at how different countries compare.
Raytheon is worried about the risks of global warming. But it also thinks climate-related "security concerns" could boost demand for its military products.
Drought is making it much harder for trees to defend themselves against invading insects, says a new study.