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Author Peter Gleick found that nearly half of bottled water is just treated stuff from the tap.
Thanks to climate change, millions of square miles of new trees and shrubs are turning the far north green, say researchers. And that's not good.
The government dispatched 3,000 of them over 16 days to keep them the hell away from endangered greater bilbies.
The oil and gas boom in the U.S. has some people arguing that we no longer need to worry about fossil-fuel supplies. Au contraire.
Climate change is disproportionately warming the oceans, but scientists warn that this trend won't keep landlubbers cool forever.
ExxonMobil won't say precisely what chemicals it spilled in Louisiana -- maybe because it's too busy keeping journalists away from another oil-oopsie in Arkansas.
Photographers trek to the park in that brief window to catch the red, streaming falls, with beautiful results.
Three-fourths of all tornadoes worldwide touch down right here in the U.S. of A. Why are we so lucky?
A new, in-depth study looks at temperatures stretching back 11,300 years, and the news doesn't bode well.
