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The U.S. Coast Guard is on its way to rescue a ship that got stuck in ice while trying to rescue another ship that got stuck in ice. Why so much ice? A rescued scientist explains.
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.
New science confirms what many of us already suspected about internet trolls.
A U.S. Navy ship that delivered aid to Japan after the big tsunami in 2011 sailed right into a plume of radioactive pollution. Now sick sailors are suing the nuclear plant owner.
The area's about the same size as Belgium.
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.
The overuse of road salt this winter might eventually mess up freshwater ecosystems. Thanks again, polar vortex.
We shouldn't be so eager to pin cancer on environmental causes that we misread statistics and leap to unsupported conclusions.
