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Tackling climate change will only work if it's at the core of U.S. economic and political strategy. An ambitious new article explains how to make that happen.
President Obama is defying steep political odds to tackle an intractable issue by appealing directly to the American people. The issue? Gun safety. On climate he's still keeping quiet.
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as...
The number of cyclists the country has created has outstripped the capacity of its infrastructure.
A new documentary follows overpopulation experiments with rats to offer insight into our own dangerously crowded world. The bad news: Crowded rats got fat and happy -- and then they all died.
A new government report says greens are the No. 1 cause of food-borne illness. Should we all stop eating salad now?
New technology and a little-known energy source suggest that fossil fuels may not be finite. This would be a miracle -- and a nightmare.
Last year, 100 pedestrians and 24 bicyclists were killed in traffic-related accidents.
Oyster farmers on the West Coast are working overtime to find creative ways to save these sea creatures -- and their own livelihoods.