In the first three months of the year, temperatures were 6 degrees F above average.

In Massachusetts, that’s meant more bears hanging out in people’s backyards.

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China’s consolidating its rare earth industry.

Polar bears have a weird disease that involves hair loss, oozing sores, and possibly death.

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The American Petroleum Institute has spent more on advertising in swing states than most super PACs.

Congress would help set up indoor plumbing for Navajo and Hopi tribes, if they give up their water rights.

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian papers mislead readers about climate change, according to a study by Sydney journalism professor Wendy Bacon.