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Even if you failed SCUBA certification, you can visit the world's coral reefs -- minus all the water and animals that might slime or sting or bite you.
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.
It takes a gallon of water to produce one almond. And that's not the most insane fact about the hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in the middle of a catastrophic drought.
Just how bad is California's water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these maps.
Before advocating for men to take some reproductive responsibility, we set out to confirm that their options don't suck.
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.
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?
