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Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Radical Mycology cofounder Peter McCoy thinks mushrooms hold the secret to human and environmental health. He may be on to something.
… and five climate hawks who lost.
Under pressure to get a publishing giant into the iconic tower, the site's developers may have sacrificed a core part of its green plans.
A new study from Yale -- the largest of its kind -- shows a correlation between living near a fracking site and having health problems.
Could improving public health help curb climate change?
A new report pins the blame for a recent spate of heat waves on human-caused climate change -- but for the California drought, the evidence is murkier.
Are cows destroying the climate? And is grass-fed even worse than grain-fed beef? We take a look at "Defending Beef" by Nicolette Hahn Niman.