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The Environmental Protection Agency said that Dimock, Pa., has safe drinking water in spite of fracking. But independent testing found dangerous levels of methane. What gives?
A reader seeks a book's worth of green living advice. Umbra searches the stacks.
In order to get people excited about the process of turning the canal into something that will stop depressing local property values, the Gowanus Community Advisory Group has decided that the project needs a mascot.
Here is an amazing example of humans piggybacking on a natural phenomenon to create an incredibly clever system: crab-based computing....
A company that makes scales for scientific use has demonstrated slight variations in Earth’s gravitational pull at the surface, in...
What will happen if USDA inspectors leave big poultry processors to "self-regulate"? The result could be worse than pink slime.
The Congressional Budget Office concludes that the only effective tool to shield Americans from price shocks is to (wait for it) use less oil.
Aspen's city council blames immigrants for environmental problems -- the same immigrants who do the town's menial labor while the rich fly in on private jets to enjoy their big vacation homes.
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