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Those tiny, plastic particles really are everywhere.
Sinking is starting to destroy bridges, crack irrigation canals, and twist highways across the state.
The Pontifical Academy is the "400-year-old collective ... that operates as the pope’s eyes and ears on the natural world."
Corn prices are low and corn planting is, too. Will farmers diversify crops or put land aside as a result?
In the first half of this year, at least six domestic coal companies filed for bankruptcy.
The study's author never implied a new ice age is imminent -- only that we may see a sharp downturn in the number of sunspots.
A new bill would take gasoline use in the state back to the 1960s, a time when California’s population was close to half of what it is today.
A new study looks at why stashing phones is a big environmental problem, and the solutions for disposing them responsibly.
What this new world will look like, exactly, is impossible to predict, and humans aren’t guaranteed to survive in it.