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A new report says New York City could slash its emissions by a whopping 90 percent by 2050 simply by making its buildings more energy efficient.
After the 2000 census, many states used politics and innovative mapping technology to gerrymander new electoral districts to lock in...
With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land...
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as...
A new government report says greens are the No. 1 cause of food-borne illness. Should we all stop eating salad now?
The number of cyclists the country has created has outstripped the capacity of its infrastructure.
By Janet Larsen In recent years weather events have whiplashed between the extremes of heat and cold, flooding and drought....
A new documentary follows overpopulation experiments with rats to offer insight into our own dangerously crowded world. The bad news: Crowded rats got fat and happy -- and then they all died.
Boosters of natural gas argue that it can serve as a "bridge fuel" between coal and renewables, but a new analysis calls their bluff.