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Readers submitted more than 3,200 ideas for our 50 States, 50 Fixes series. Before the year ends, we wanted to share just a ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to ...

Alaska Airlines is the latest airline to ground its planes because of an IT meltdown. We talked to industry leaders about why ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for creatures great and small.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

WATERWAYS ACROSS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY are increasingly threatened by invasive plant species that engulf canals and drains, decreasing biodiversity and ...