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Your guide to buying nontoxic, kid-friendly toys
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk offers six tips for avoiding the worst playthings and finding the best.
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Cities can pick up nations’ slack on combating climate change
A coalition of mayors hopes to keep warming below 1.5 degrees C.
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Shift Happens: Dumbledore’s Army
Steel your courage to take on He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
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How food, forests, and people are connected, in 10 charts
Here's why environmentalists should cheer on the end of poverty.
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What the humble turnip can teach us about economic growth
The root vegetable might have been key to the U.K.'s Industrial Revolution.
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A closer look at tradeoffs
Halt the destruction of the world’s last wild places, stop greenhouse gas emissions, and eliminate hunger? We can't have it all.
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Costa Rica modernized without wrecking the environment. Here’s how.
Not every route to prosperity involves trashing the planet.
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Is it terrible to crack open a window during winter nights?
A reader likes to get a little fresh air. Her husband says it's a waste of energy. Advice columnist Umbra Fisk settles this heated dispute.
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Rick Perry’s Dakota Access Pipeline business entanglements
The Energy Department pick is on the board of the company behind the pipeline.
