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Here's a quick roundup of national and local races in the 2014 midterms that focused on food and farming.
Could improving public health help curb climate change?
If we are to foster a broader conversation about global warming, one that includes population, it's important to remember why the topic has been largely off limits for so long.
A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
Recent studies show that air pollution decreases test scores and contributes to ADHD, both of which can cause big trouble later in life.
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.
Thirsty Californians now need to think twice before they tap that aquifer.
The planet’s changing climate demands that we summon the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe some of the Age of Capitalism as well).
“This is no cause for alarm,” one official said. Um, yes, it is.