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A local youth activists says the enraged protesters’ “behavior is a result, or correlates with the environment that they live in.”
The majority of women in Texas encounter some sort of barrier to accessing reproductive healthcare.
In drought conditions, consolidating water systems brings out ugly politics.
The railroad industry says 2014 was its safest year on record -- but a close look at the numbers isn't going to make you feel very safe.
When well-off white people flee to the suburbs, it's bad for those left behind in inner cities and bad for the environment too.
A reader wants to know whether "single stream" recycling is more efficient than the usual sort-paper-and-plastic approach. Umbra digs up the answer.
In a step it hasn't taken since the 1970s, the state water board tells key rights holders, including municipalities and water districts, to draw less H2O.
Heat records are being broken across the Western U.S.
Birds that are threatened by climate change are now showing up in new locations -- on rolldown gates, apartment building walls, and stoops.