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The classic red party cup didn't just appear out of the blue. Join us as we go deeper to find the who -- and the why -- in this video.
A new survey found that only 4 in 10 Americans know that the lightbulbs will disappear on New Year’s Day.
There's now even more peer-reviewed research from actual scientists to debunk a favorite climate-denier theory.
Some developing countries have oversized carbon footprints because they manufacture so much of our junk, and their factories are sending smog back our way.
South Portland has imposed a six-month moratorium on shipping tar-sands oil through its port, and is now looking at a permanent ban.
Can open fields capture atmospheric carbon and stash it away in the soil? You bet, says the data from a project in Marin.
If we don't mend our ways, wild areas nearly as big as Brazil will turn into farmland by 2050. A new U.N. report lays out a plan for avoiding that.
There's no way to be sure if Delhi's air pollution is worse than Beijing's, but this Delhi-based reporter concludes both cities are filthy.
An uncommonly sharp kink in the jet stream is partly responsible for plunging more than half of the United States into the freeze.