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Activists around the country are shaping public decisions -- and reshaping their communities for the better.
Here are five things you should do if you’re ever unlucky enough to be hit. And a shining example of what not to do.
Even if you failed SCUBA certification, you can visit the world's coral reefs -- minus all the water and animals that might slime or sting or bite you.
The so-called "Hail Mary" to save Sen. Mary Landrieu's political hide is a pointless Kabuki dance.
ProPublica's interactive 50-state map is the best tour guide yet for this increasingly common hazard of North America's energy boom.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
A new study from Yale -- the largest of its kind -- shows a correlation between living near a fracking site and having health problems.
The retail behemoth gets a lot of good press for putting up a few solar panels, but it gets far more electricity from coal than from the sun.
