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The area's about the same size as Belgium.
New science confirms what many of us already suspected about internet trolls.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is warning that tar-sands oil poses significant health risks. She's calling on the State Department to do a new study on the issue.
In the '80s, Big Tobacco targeted the developing world, where cigarette demand was strong and regulation was weak. Now, energy companies are taking a page from their playbook.
Aronofsky's "Noah" embraces a brand of faith-based environmentalism that's increasingly popular with young religious believers.
Torrential downpours and abnormal heat could kill nearly half of penguin chicks in a single year, say researchers.
We shouldn't be so eager to pin cancer on environmental causes that we misread statistics and leap to unsupported conclusions.
The overuse of road salt this winter might eventually mess up freshwater ecosystems. Thanks again, polar vortex.
Under its Republican governor, cozy North Carolina regulators shielded the utility from environmental complaints.
