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A failing fracking company says Canadians owe it $250 million because of a ban on fracking beneath the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
According to new research, severe thunderstorms are likely to hit the U.S. with more frequency over the coming century.
A spill of fracked oil from a pipeline was discovered two weeks ago, but we're only just learning about it.
The EPA has lowered the amount of biofuels required to be blended into gasoline. That's a good thing, even though it makes oil companies happy.
Here's a bullet-point summation of what Nathanael Johnson learned about GMOs in 2013.
The killers: Cheaper alternatives, dropping demand, and rising costs of generating electricity with dirty coal.
Now energetic kids in rural Ghana can charge up LED lanterns by playing, so they can study at night.
New York's Fire Island lost more than half of its shoreline sand and sand dunes to the mega-hurricane, leaving the tourist mecca vulnerable to further storm surges.
Genetically engineered crops are supposed to make it easier for farmers to protect the earth by plowing less. But the record is spotty.