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Governments, communities, and everyday people are finding ways to combat the looming climate meltdown. In a five-part series this week, these students will tell you how.
The donation boxes have been condemned as public nuisances, magnets for graffiti and crime, and fire hazards. In fact, they're a logical response to our overconsumption.
Once upon a time, this super-plant may have geoengineered the planet. Now scientists want to sequence its genome to learn its secret.
If a giant abyss appears near a fracking site, it COULD BE a sign that there’s something going on there that is not entirely advisable.
A reader wonders how much water has been wasted to raise money for ALS. Umbra says it's a drop in the bucket.
It's been five years since the Copenhagen climate conference, and things have just gotten worse.
The enemy of the human race takes a few hits.
We don't have to understand every detail of the amazingly complex soil microbiome. We just have to feed it right, and it might work wonders.
A binding international treaty with firm emission limits just isn’t happening. Now attention is turning to a bottom-up, “pledge and review” strategy. Can it work?
