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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.
Before advocating for men to take some reproductive responsibility, we set out to confirm that their options don't suck.