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Global warming will mean fewer big waves for Australia's Bondi Beach.

Samantha Larson Climate & Energy

The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down 17 years ago. But if he hadn’t taken a bullet, pollution and disease might have done the job instead.

Brentin Mock Culture

Dairy products require a whole lot of water -- and many of them come from drought-ridden California.

Alex Park & Julia Lurie Climate & Energy

You can’t turn back the hands of time, but you CAN make them greener.

Holly Richmond Culture

SHH, half of the population is a secret! Maybe that's why we don't have enough of a say in major climate and energy decisions.

Holly Richmond Culture

What could be more American than a gang rivalry between nonrenewable energy and wheat, our nation’s two great loves?

Eve Andrews Technology

Cattle farmers’ two least-favorite words: scrotal frostbite.

Holly Richmond Culture

Farmed fish can only spare the ocean if we swap out the fish oil in their feed for a lower-impact alternative.

Amelia Urry Food

Your milk travels hundreds of miles to get to your cup. Can micro-pasteurizers change that?

Elizabeth Hewitt Technology

A reader wonders if all that wash water turns a green option brown. Umbra says that's a loaded question.

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