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Drop in crime rates are less where Wal-Mart builds

Half of black males, 40 percent of white males arrested by age 23

Viewing Fukushima in the cold light of Chernobyl

Residents with Lowest Incomes Care Most About Their Communities

Study may help predict extinction tipping point for species

Athens, Ga. — What if there were a way to predict when a species was about to become extinct — in time to do something about it?
Findings from a study by John M. Drake, associate professor in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, a…

Cement, the glue that holds oyster families together

Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
With a growing awareness of oysters’ critical roles filtering water, preventing erosion, guarding coasts …