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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.
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.
A new study from Yale -- the largest of its kind -- shows a correlation between living near a fracking site and having health problems.
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.
