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Over 30 percent of California's forest firefighters are prisoners.
The Riverside School District does school food right.
They didn’t get everything they wanted, but the activists pushed hard and got some changes that could make a real difference.
But now for the House ...
In drought conditions, consolidating water systems brings out ugly politics.
An overdependence on groundwater is costing millions of dollars in damage in the idyllic coastal town.
Take a video tour of the Bread Lab and learn how it could reinvent wheat farming.
Urban communities aspiring to Brooklyn's popularity should focus on taking care of their current residents -- rather than trading them in for a hipper crowd.
To reduce greenhouse emissions, we need more people living in densely built city cores. But lifestyle changes and inequality are making that harder to achieve.