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Next best actions are selling your car, avoiding flights and going vegetarian, according to study into true impacts of different green lifestyle choices
Acoustic survey of a small porpoise called the vaquita speeds last-ditch plans to save the species
As international powers intensify military and diplomatic activities in Syria, residents in besieged areas have gone without access to food and medicine.
The renaming created rare unity between Republican and Democratic Buckeyes against President Obama, and even rarer agreement from members of both parties in Alaska praising him.
Chinese textile manufacturers drawn by cheap cotton, falling labor costs and government incentives are helping revive depressed mill towns in the American South.
Recent episodes show that projects like expanded roadways sometimes exacerbate racial and economic divides.
Deaths rose sharply last summer, a survey by the Bee Informed Partnership reported, and beekeepers who rent hives to farmers were hit especially hard.
Two real estate experts claim Starbucks is responsible for driving up the cost of homes near its stores – but evidence indicates it’s the other way around
What is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch?
A high-tech charting effort is slowly gaining ground as part of an effort to improve aviation safety in the state.
Geography Education News, by NCGE: News and updates from the National Council for Geographic Education
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The sudden chaos unleashed by damage to a dam’s spillway offered a dramatic reversal for Northern California, which until recently was parched by drought.
About 20 years ago, the United States and Canada began introducing genetic modifications in agriculture. Europe did not embrace the technology. This is how it has played out.
The technology sector is not only reshaping economies and work environments. It is also reshaping the physical environments of cities large and small.
On the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are celebrating New Orleans' progress and creating a vision for its future.
The notorious swath of downtown is seeing an influx of tech companies and gentrification’s attendant indicators, and residents are trying to combat the sudden popularity of their area with education and appeals for integration
People have been farming — and eating — a GMO for thousands of years without knowing it. Scientists have found genes from bacteria in sweet potatoes around the world. So who made the GMO?
Via Seth Dixon
Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, but over the centuries, paper maps have done more than just get us from A to B
Colonial mines polluted South America centuries before coal and oil
There really are two different Americas: the heartland, and the coasts....
Via Seth Dixon
The US has discovered that one of the best ways of fighting invasive plants is also one of the oldest - goats.
This episode of “Living City,” a video series about New York’s infrastructure, looks at the network of 19 reservoirs that make up the New York City watershed.
Growth in the world’s population of humans is showing no signs of slowing down in the coming decades, and is expect to balloon to 11 billion by the year 2100. According to a sobering new study published this week in the journal Science, a team of researchers from the University of Washington and the United Nations used new statistical methods that actually reverses many earlier predictions pointing to a possible decline by middle of this century. To the contrary, this study expects the global p
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