Environment

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Pennsylvania primary

Here's What Today's Primary Voters Think About the Planet's Most Important Issue

Spoiler alert: Trump's gonna win, anyway.

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This Bill Could Make More Kids Obese—and No One Is Talking About It

If Republicans get their way, schools will sell more junk food and still have to crank out meals on a miserly budget.

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This Is What Happens When Restaurants Ditch Tipping

In this week's episode of BITE, we discuss tipping's racist origins and uncertain future.

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Here's Why Kids Are Still Getting More Obese

While consuming fewer calories.

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Pennsylvania primary

Here's What Today's Primary Voters Think About the Planet's Most Important Issue

Spoiler alert: Trump's gonna win, anyway.

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This Bill Could Make More Kids Obese—and No One Is Talking About It

If Republicans get their way, schools will sell more junk food and still have to crank out meals on a miserly budget.

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This Is What Happens When Restaurants Ditch Tipping

In this week's episode of BITE, we discuss tipping's racist origins and uncertain future.

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This Bill Could Make More Kids Obese—and No One Is Talking About It

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Pennsylvania primary

Here's What Today's Primary Voters Think About the Planet's Most Important Issue

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Flint and America's Corroded Trust

— By Charlie LeDuff; Photographs by Zackary Canepari

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Bill Nye Just Told Us Exactly What He Thinks of the Republican Candidates

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This Is What Happens When Restaurants Ditch Tipping

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For Once, Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day

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The Racist, Twisted History of Tipping

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Opioid Users Are Finally Getting This Lifesaving Overdose Drug

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Photographs by Michelle Siu

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Science Has Some Awesome News for Coffee Drinkers

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Why Should Baby Pandas Get All the Love?

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Yemen

Why World Leaders Are Terrified of Water Shortages

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The World’s Largest Coal Company Just Filed for Bankruptcy

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Disturbing New Evidence About What Common Pesticides Can Do to Brains

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Dangerous Work for "Crap Money": The Dark Side of Recycling

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The New York Primary Will Be a Big Fracking Deal

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What the Lunch Ladies Didn't Tell You

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Your Child Could Be Drinking Lead-Tainted Water in School—and You'd Never Know It

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It’s not just about pipes. And it's not just about a city in Michigan.

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"I will search for you until I find you."

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