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Despite government surveillance, Tibetans turn to WeChat

He claims to have invented Bitcoin. Should we believe him?

One of Africa's most active volcanoes is showing new signs of life

Violence, death threats confront latest winner of prestigious environmental prize

A Baltimore student led a drive against an incinerator in her neighborhood. Now she's won a major aw

How new technology may make unlocking your phone as easy as thinking

How a new type of foam might be able to stop bullets and radiation

At Harvard Law, a highly visible push to divest from fossil fuels

Chernobyl and ‘the summer without children’

Africa's Great Green Wall is making progress on two fronts

30 years after Chernobyl, these Ukrainian babushkas are still living on toxic land

Melting ice is causing the Earth's axis to shift direction

Hope for the climate? Countries are lining up to sign the Paris deal, and it could go into effect ea

The Paris climate agreement could go into effect before 2020 — if certain countries sign the revised

She loved to run. In India, she couldn't. It was unhealthy.

VW deal doesn’t fix deeper problems in emissions testing

Some drug cartels now make more money from gold than cocaine

Louisianans rally against new Gulf oil leases

Three years later, experts say the Boston Marathon is safer. But it will never be completely safe.

Land restoration on the Gulf Coast is showing some progress