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This is by far the most adorable thing that also kind of looks like the results of picking your nose that we've ever seen.
South of New Orleans, a tugboat pushed an oil barge into a pipeline area where shipping is banned, and the resulting fire is still blazing.
Cities worldwide have dangerously unsustainable water supplies, says a new study. But making a deal with farmers could solve the crisis for many.
The rest of the world is eyeing the cheap natural gas produced by fracking in the U.S. Obama will soon decide whether we should share.
Low-priced natural gas doomed the Wisconsin plant, while maintenance problems plague the San Onofre nuke facility along the Pacific coast.
If only a fraction of predicted global warming happens, the East Coast could be in for a rough century.
Author Peter Gleick found that nearly half of bottled water is just treated stuff from the tap.
Thanks to climate change, millions of square miles of new trees and shrubs are turning the far north green, say researchers. And that's not good.
If you're as fascinated by utilities as we are, you'll want to follow these links to more reports and articles covering the spread of distributed energy and utilities' efforts to adapt.