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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.
Nice that the government can take regulatory action in the face of lobbying to keep people alive sometimes, isn't it?
After the 2000 census, many states used politics and innovative mapping technology to gerrymander new electoral districts to lock in...
A new report says New York City could slash its emissions by a whopping 90 percent by 2050 simply by making its buildings more energy efficient.
With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land...
By J. Matthew Roney World nuclear electricity-generating capacity has been essentially flat since 2007 and is likely to fall as...
A new government report says greens are the No. 1 cause of food-borne illness. Should we all stop eating salad now?
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.
