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It’s hard to imagine a teensy mosquito taking down an animal as mighty as the killer whale. Yet that’s exactly...
In their continuing efforts to go beyond CO2, some scientists have been looking seriously at the impact of nitrous oxide on the climate, and results point to a very familiar refrain: Eat more plants, less meat.
On the eve of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, we look back at four decades of global conservation efforts and take stock of the successes and the failures. Well, mostly the failures.
The U.S. government owns 200,000 foreclosed homes. And to keep those empty homes looking spiffy for would-be buyers, the government...
Terry Tempest Williams, Raj Patel, Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, and Gary Cohen on the Supreme Court's landmark decision.
The final Earth Summit agreement, to be signed by world leaders on Friday, isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, according to many critics. But that doesn’t mean it was a waste of time.
Dave Roberts and others have been talking about leaving coal in the ground. That got me thinking: What’s it worth...
What could be causing all of these wildfires, floods, and heat waves? We may never know. It's not global warming, though. We know that.
A new study finds that in the city that birthed The Wire, trees provide shelter from crime.