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The Department of Energy launches a campaign to promote energy conservation as the home-heating season approaches. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman says energy-saving steps can help consumers trim high heating costs this winter. Critics say the administration's emphasis on conservation is long overdue.

This year had a relentless number of extreme wildfires and hurricanes. They were driven by climate change, and global temperatures that were among the hottest ever recorded.

As Iranian visual artist Nazafarin Lotfi integrated with Arizona’s artist community, she noticed a lot of landscape painting and photography. It led her to think about how nations, including the two she’s lived in, define themselves by their landscapes — and eventually transpiring “A Garden to Build,” a solo art show on view now at University Galleries in Normal.

Colossal squid are known to be elusive and likely avoid the bright and loud research equipment used underwater.

The war on Iran is leaving Indians scrambling for cooking fuel and natural gas to power factories.

For Betsy Block and her family, picnics never turn out to be romantic meals eaten under cloudless skies. For them, a picnic is a state of mind -- and can take place on the front stoop, in the living room.

Rising sea levels are not the only threat to Venice. As residents continue to leave, the city risks becoming an empty shell sinking under mass tourism. Some 30 million visitors arrive every year.

Turns out wireless networks aren't wireless at all. And light pulses in fiber optic cables carry your voice around the world. A new exhibition explains the science you hold in your hand every day.

In the months after Trump announced his bid for president, citizenship applications were up about 14.5 percent compared to the year before. Is the "Trump effect" pushing immigrants to naturalize?

Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil's new book aims to show readers how the natural world can support, educate and inspire us; it's inspired by her peripatetic childhood and the plants and animals she loved.