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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.
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.
New research finds that infants born near fracking wells in Pennsylvania had lower birth weights and more health concerns than other newborns.
New science confirms what many of us already suspected about internet trolls.
One of the moderators of the science page on social news site reddit explains why they ousted climate-skeptic commenters and what they learned in the process.
The area's about the same size as Belgium.
The overuse of road salt this winter might eventually mess up freshwater ecosystems. Thanks again, polar vortex.
As Florida warms up, coastal mangroves are on the move, and that could be bad news for other ecosystems.
Coal production is gradually leaving Appalachia -- having already extracted much of the region's natural wealth.
