Environment

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Bernie and Hillary Just Did Something We Thought We’d Never See

It finally happened.

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Welcome to Afghanistan's Green Zone

In the Panjshir Valley, locals eke out a rough living mining emeralds by hand.

Photographs by Kate Holt/eyevine/zReportage/ZUMA Press
Yemen

Why World Leaders Are Terrified of Water Shortages

From Yemen to Syria to Arizona, droughts are a growing threat.

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The World’s Largest Coal Company Just Filed for Bankruptcy

2016 just keeps getting worse for the coal industry.

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wow

Bernie and Hillary Just Did Something We Thought We’d Never See

It finally happened.

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Welcome to Afghanistan's Green Zone

In the Panjshir Valley, locals eke out a rough living mining emeralds by hand.

Photographs by Kate Holt/eyevine/zReportage/ZUMA Press
Yemen

Why World Leaders Are Terrified of Water Shortages

From Yemen to Syria to Arizona, droughts are a growing threat.

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The World’s Largest Coal Company Just Filed for Bankruptcy

2016 just keeps getting worse for the coal industry.

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Bernie and Hillary Just Did Something We Thought We’d Never See

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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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Here’s the Amazing Science Behind Inky the Octopus' Daring Escape

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

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Here’s Something Else Donald Trump Is Totally Wrong About

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Here's a Great Way to Make Juice Even More Wasteful and Expensive

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Bernie Sanders Wants to Phase Out Nuclear Power

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Scott Baio Has Important Thoughts About Science

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A Cure for Vile Hospital Food?

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Rising Seas Could Deluge US Coastal Cities Sooner Than We Thought

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Here's Another Way Politicians Are Screwing You Over

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Snow surveyors measured at Phillip Station, 90 miles east of Sacramento.

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Americans Are Gorging Themselves on Cheap Meat

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How Air Pollution Affects Babies Before They're Born

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GMOs Are Probably Safe. They Should Still Be Labeled.

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The Feds Just Issued an Earthshaking Report About Fracking

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Now You Can Take a $120,000 Cruise Through the Northwest Passage

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Clinton Says She'll "Put a Lot of Coal Companies and Coal Miners Out of Business"

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INTERACTIVES

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MAPS

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These Stark Photos Reveal a Hidden Battlefront in the War on AIDS

A new book reminds us how far we still have to go.

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Unlike Ansel Adams' romantic and iconic images, these have an uneasy quietness.

Sublime Photos of African Wildlife Roaming Their Lost Habitat

Nick Brandt's book "Inherit the Dust" is a stark call for conservation.

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