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Thanks to climate change, wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. In the Southwest, forests are on course to disappear altogether.
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
The elections were a mixed bag for all things urban, but despite a couple of big losses, mass transit came out smelling like roses.
Sugar riot! Harvard study shows a correlation between sweet sodas and violence in kids.
The Times' graphic description of the fire at a Bangladeshi clothing manufacturer is a graphic depiction of externalized costs.
Consider this your road map for the future.
Among all of the terrible ways to get rid of nuclear waste, there's one that stands above the rest for being a little less horrible: turning the radioactive parts into glass, a process called “vitrification.”
Agriculture land prices have been posting double-digit gains for years. Should we use the word "bubble?" Everyone else seems to be.
Probably down, unless up.
