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In India, about a quarter of all electricity is stolen or lost in transmission. In Nigeria, $7 billion worth of oil was pilfered last year.
An expected 4 degree C rise in global temperatures would spell disaster for developing countries, according to a big new World Bank report.
This week we're highlighting Thanksgiving recipes that rely on canned and highly processed ingredients and making them with whole foods instead.
The source of the leaks isn't known, but it's enough to make scientists nervous.
As the den mother for undercover CAFO investigators, Mary Beth Sweetland sends her employees into the field to witness acts of animal cruelty and environmental degradation.
More developers and property owners are committed to green building, but because it will save them money, not because it will save the planet.
A less stable climate will likely cause food prices to spike, and that could mean more of us in the developed world will be eating highly processed, fattening foods.
In the battle between polluting and not polluting quite so much, how did the world fare in 2012?
A handful of California and Washington fueling stations are selling biofuel made with algae oil. Could cellulosic biofuels be far behind?