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Clothing companies think by outsourcing manufacturing, they've also outsourced responsibility. They're wrong.
Andrew David Thaler is a marine scientist by day. But by night, he works his magic with Google maps to show people what their cities will look like if climate change is left unchecked.
Voters in Boulder, Colo., spurned Xcel Energy's big-money campaign and pushed toward a plan to create a publicly owned, renewably powered utility.
The Tea Party senator thinks slashing taxes is the solution to Detroit's woes (as well as every other problem in the country). Actually, it's not.
Scientists discovered microplastic in one third of gooseneck barnacles hanging out in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Science journalist Deborah Blum explores the homicidal -- and, the environmental -- ways that chemistry can do us in.
Bjorn Lomborg thinks Africa just needs more fossil fuels. Luckily, Africans already know what's best for them.
A chance encounter on a New York City street -- and a plate of Kentucky Fried Chicken -- changed one man's life for good.
Mass protests over green space in Turkey posed a significant threat to the ruling party, and other countries have begun to feel the heat as well.