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A reader wonders which is more energy efficient, bottle-fed water coolers or the newfangled point-of-use kind. Umbra distills the answers.
A new study from Yale -- the largest of its kind -- shows a correlation between living near a fracking site and having health problems.
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
The retail behemoth gets a lot of good press for putting up a few solar panels, but it gets far more electricity from coal than from the sun.
Before advocating for men to take some reproductive responsibility, we set out to confirm that their options don't suck.
Recife, Brazil, has taken a shockingly non-hysterical approach to reducing shark attacks. Fly fishers everywhere call it catch-and-release.
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.
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.
