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Climate change is no longer a problem of the distant future, and more.

The struggle for labor rights for Mexico's sex workers stretches back at least 25 years.

Innocent people will be executed in the US if the country's capital punishment system is not reformed, warns a new report from the Constitution Project.

Residents go up against Louisiana's strong laws protecting the oil and gas industry.

The White House is finally on the solar grid, in response to prodding by environmentalists.

Since the Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment includes the right to bear arms in self defense, guns rights advocates, led by the NRA, have challenged …

Until recently it was inconceivable for small groups of organized citizens in fully electrified industrialized countries like Spain to generate their own power from clean sources of energy, challenging …

Climate change is real and is impacting every corner of the nation right now, says a report released yesterday by the Obama administration.

Stanford University's Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to stop investing in coal-mining companies because of climate change concerns.

When residents in the Quebec town of Lac-Mu00e9gantic describe the scene after an oil-train derailed and then exploded there last July, they say the burning petroleum was like a …