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An assessment of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country finds that most jobs are accessible by transit – but the workers might not be.
A report from the Washington Post demonstrates
How do we reduce our exposure to mercury? The answer requires both difficult changes to the world’s energy supply and simpler consumer choices.
A case study in how change is made in Washington: slowly, with much debate, and with tangential regard for the science.
If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a “rule” that precludes distributed renewable energy projects from supplying more than 15% of...
A new Wired cover story argues that we don't need to worry about coming disasters. On climate change, that argument clearly fails.
Unless you're an economics geek, you've probably never heard of "discount rates." Behind that technical term, however, hides a social and ethical debate at the heart of climate policy. David Roberts explains (otters included).
The culprit, according to the CDC, isn't a lack of vaccinations -- it's that the vaccinations may be too weak.
Richard Muller, a long-time climate-change denier, did a big study of his own and found the same thing everyone else has: Humans are causing climate change.