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A new report in the journal Science discovers there are a lot of things about fracking we don’t know. But since we've fracked half the country anyway, we're going to find out.
A plan to build a pricey coal-gasification plant is getting help from not-so-impartial legislators. Hoosiers could get hosed as a result.
Recent DNA testing revealed that so-called sustainable Chilean sea bass samples were not, in fact, what they were advertised to be.
Exurban development patterns not only worsen climate change, they also make residents more vulnerable to one of its effects.
American taxpayers spent more money cleaning up and helping out after natural disasters in 2012 than they spent on education or transportation.
Next time you find yourself drunk at a festival, instead of finding an isolated patch of grass to pee on, consider the public tower of straw that turns your pee into plant-friendly compost.
Throughout most of human existence, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation. Reaching...
Melting ice and rising seas are shifting the position of the North Pole by eight inches a year.
McDonald's Japan isn't doing well. Bring on the dancing employees.
