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Science writer Maryn McKenna explains why the drugs we rely on may soon stop working.
Several may surprise you.
Bangladesh is vulnerable to floods and cyclones, which makes its plans for a new coal-fired power plant next to a mangrove forest all the more troubling.
If carbon is priced high enough to meet international climate goals, fossil fuel companies would lose up to $12 trillion by 2100, but governments would gain up to $32 trillion in revenues, a new study finds.
Trans fats have been an unlabeled part of the American diet until relatively recently -- a fact that makes a good case for the "precautionary approach" to new foods.
Or, the rise of fracking and the decline of coal.
When Canadian fishermen headed out for their annual sardine hunt in the Pacific Ocean earlier this fall, they got a rude surprise. Their nets came up empty.
Johns Hopkins University has long been paid by coal companies to screen former miners for black lung disease.
A paper from arXiv describes a new scientific law: the Law of Urination.
