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The writers for Russian blog URA.RU got fed up with unfixed potholes in the city of Yekaterinburg, so they decided...
How the author uncovered his secret identity as a would-be oil tycoon.
Refineries are making money. Pipelines are being built. The U.S. oil industry is fiddling a fine tune as the climate burns.
What absorbs water, nutrients, and CO2, while helping even the biggest corn and soy farms hurdle many of the most pressing climate obstacles? Healthy soil, that's what.
Republicans disregarded Nate Silver and other empiricists, and lost badly. Almost everyone is ignoring the empirical data of climate scientists -- and our losses could be catastrophic.
These ideas will help you think outside the cookie tin.
BP is claiming in a civil suit that it's pretty much done cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. The federal government's response: Like hell.
Very few companies control most of the food we eat. In this example, we look at the outsized effect the Silk brand has had on the organic soy industry.
Over the short term, meat prices will drop as the supply spikes. But early next year, prices of staples and meat will rise.