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How one woman fought one of the world’s biggest oil companies — and won

Beavers are being looked at as little climate change fighting machines

A remote, forgotten Nazi hideout? Archaeologists shine light on Argentine history.

Archaeologists think they've found a remote, forgotten Nazi hideout in Argentina

Why we're all overconfident

There's nothing like an eclipse to make Russians feel closer to the West

Seeing a total solar eclipse is 'like standing on another planet and looking at an alien sky'

Poisoning rhino horns doesn't hurt the rhinos, but it may keep poachers away

How disease and genocide marked the start of the 'human age'

A new fossil may date humanity's ancestor further back than we thought

Activists go up against Drew Faust as Harvard refuses to divest carbon

Drought forces Brazilians to curb their addiction to multiple daily showers

Some of Japan's 'nuclear refugees' can finally go home — but they don't want to

'God commanded' family planning, says this Muslim leader in flood-ravaged Malawi

It might be time to put zoos out to pasture

How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper.

São Paulo residents demand their city take a new attitude about water

South America's largest city is almost out of water

New researchers continue the search for the ancient missing city of Atlantis

Scientists dig in to paleosoil to find out why some civilizations learned to farm earlier