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Cities worldwide have dangerously unsustainable water supplies, says a new study. But making a deal with farmers could solve the crisis for many.
Three-fourths of all tornadoes worldwide touch down right here in the U.S. of A. Why are we so lucky?
The tech economy is turning San Francisco upside down, but not every shiny new innovation is in the public interest.
A sea lion named Ronan is the first nonhuman mammal to have the proven ability to keep a beat.
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.
They say the way to a young person's heart is through his stomach, but this one might be a bit of a stretch.
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.
The oil and gas boom in the U.S. has some people arguing that we no longer need to worry about fossil-fuel supplies. Au contraire.
