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Energy savings: focus on health benefits, not costs

Believe it or not, money isn't the prime motivating factor if you want to convince people to start saving energy.

New—and worrisome—contaminants emerge from oil and gas wells

Researchers find alarming levels of ammonium and iodide in fracking wastewater released into streams.

A vacuum cleaner for the Web's dusty corners

Ah, if only it were possible for each one of us to suction away the carbon emissions we contribute to the overburdened atmosphere, much as we vacuum dirt from the carpet.

Questions for the man behind "biological diversity"

Could an answer to climate change be sitting right in our backyard?

The nasty, scary world of emerging tick-borne disease

Lyme disease is bad enough. But it's just the beginning of a host of odd and ugly diseases that ticks transmit, public-health officials are finding.

Lyme disease surges north: Canada moves out of denial

Canadian scientists long expected climate change to harm human health. So why is Canada belatedly struggling to cope with Lyme disease's northward migration?

Lyme disease spreads: a bewildering, debilitating array of misery and afflictions

As Lyme disease spreads in North America, those in its path cope with a bewildering and sometimes misdiagnosed array of maladies.

Cities can invest in climate solutions and still thrive

Transit-oriented development, "redensification" in older cities can make impact.

Are deadly lightning storms the new norm for California beaches?

Freakish occurence might be a result of drought-destabilized weather patterns.

Climate change, water demand hits U.S. in the gut

Climate change is creating significant new risks for the $65-billion-a-year U.S. corn industry, foundation for the nation's favorite soft-drink sweetener, at the same time that...