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If you drink wine and care about the planet, cork growers want your attention

Researchers are learning how to say, ‘Run! Bees!' — in elephant

Is climate change a bigger threat to our national security than terrorism?

Who or what is behind these strange videos uploaded to YouTube?

Stanford University uses its purse strings to protest coal companies

The impacts of climate change are already here, but could get worse

Is this where the myth of Atlantis comes from?

It's not about the technology, it's about the people says Twitter's co-founder

This African country is home to a chimpanzee rescue center

Your video games may revolutionize health and scientific research

After 50,000 years buried under the ocean floor, an ancient cypress forest may get a new kind of pro

A World Health Organization report warns we're moving toward a world where antibiotics don't work

The full extent of the BP Gulf oil spill is still unfolding before our eyes

A stinky, dead whale has become a tourist attraction in a Canadian town

Faced with dire climate change, denial may actually help Australian farmers cope

It's puny, it's purple, it's Putnisite. So where was the new mineral discovered?

Scientists pinpoint the origins of human influence on everything from chickens to chili peppers

That banana you eat with your breakfast may become a lot harder to find — and more expensive

Should Mexicans in Acapulco stay and fight climate change or give in and leave?

Brazil's new Internet 'Bill of Rights' aims to protect the country's privacy