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In her new book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams offers her take on why breasts are getting bigger and developing earlier, why tumors seem to gravitate toward the breast, and how toxins from the environment may be affecting hormones and breast development.

The rare emergence of two broods of periodic cicadas at one time in parts of Central Illinois has attracted international attention from those who want to hear the pulsating and ear-piercing mating choruses.

McDonald's also says it will test alternatives to plastic straws in some restaurants in the U.S. and several other countries later this year.

Myron Ebell has been chosen to lead the president-elect's transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency. Ebell is a well known climate change skeptic.

(1:25) Project Oz client Tre Whitelow says it's not easy to find a living wage job in Bloomington Normal. Ryan Denham reports on a Project Oz program…

There are other reasons to like brick streets than historical authenticity or neighborhood environment. Economics are a factor too. A master plan for…

Climate change and exploitation of natural resources threaten the natural wonder that is the Dead Sea.

Overexploitation of natural resources and climate change threaten the Dead Sea, a natural wonder drying up rapidly.

The United Nations effort to achieve "harmony" with the natural world kicks off in Colombia this week. Recent reports show there's a lot of work to do to achieve that goal.

It could be the first natural hybrid between the two species.