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If you step on a tack, neurons in your brain will register two things: that there’s a piercing physical sensation in your foot, and that it’s not pleasant.

The primary component of natural gas, methane, is itself a potent greenhouse gas.

Sea levels are rising globally from ocean warming and melting of land ice, but the seas aren’t rising at the same rate everywhere.

The ill effects of air pollution may literally be causing some people to lose sleep, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Developing a perfectly energy-efficient building is relatively easy to do — if you don’t give the building’s occupants any control over their environment.