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American taxpayers spent more money cleaning up and helping out after natural disasters in 2012 than they spent on education or transportation.
Next time you find yourself drunk at a festival, instead of finding an isolated patch of grass to pee on, consider the public tower of straw that turns your pee into plant-friendly compost.
Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching...
Melting ice and rising seas are shifting the position of the North Pole by eight inches a year.
McDonald's Japan isn't doing well. Bring on the dancing employees.
New research suggests that people in counties with coal-fired power plants are more likely to kill themselves.
With a behind-the-scenes accounting change, the Obama administration has justified more government regulation to fight climate change.
Fracking can release uranium from shale. Pennsylvania is poised to study the issue, and the uranium industry is poised to exploit it.
There may be fewer tropical cyclones in the Pacific in the future, but those that do form are expected to be stronger and more likely to strike Hawaii.
