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Environment

Watch a NASA Scientist and a Yellow Puppet Explore Greenland’s Melting Glaciers

OMG.

—Gregory Barber

Here's Why Kids Are Still Getting More Obese

While consuming fewer calories.

—Tom Philpott

Pennsylvania primary

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

Spoiler alert: Trump's gonna win, anyway.

—Jeremy Schulman

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.

—Tom Philpott

Watch a NASA Scientist and a Yellow Puppet Explore Greenland’s Melting Glaciers

OMG.

—Gregory Barber

Here's Why Kids Are Still Getting More Obese

While consuming fewer calories.

—Tom Philpott

Pennsylvania primary

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

Spoiler alert: Trump's gonna win, anyway.

—Jeremy Schulman

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.

—Tom Philpott

LATEST

Watch a NASA Scientist and a Yellow Puppet Explore Greenland’s Melting Glaciers

—Gregory Barber

Here's Why Kids Are Still Getting More Obese

—Tom Philpott

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

—Tom Philpott

Pennsylvania primary

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

—Jeremy Schulman

Flint and America's Corroded Trust

— By Charlie LeDuff; Photographs by Zackary Canepari

Bill Nye

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

—Gregory Barber

This Is What Happens When Restaurants Ditch Tipping

—Maddie Oatman and Jenny Luna

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

—Tim McDonnell

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The Racist, Twisted History of Tipping

—Maddie Oatman

Inside the Country's Most Controversial Company

—Tom Philpott

Opioid Users Are Finally Getting This Lifesaving Overdose Drug

mistake

Could a Typo Help Save the Planet?

—Suzanne Goldenberg

Five-year-old Ardian Azka Mubarok

Marlboro Boys: Indonesia's Youngest Smokers Light Up

Photographs by Michelle Siu

coffee

Science Has Some Awesome News for Coffee Drinkers

—Gregory Barber

wow

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

—Rebecca Leber

Why Should Baby Pandas Get All the Love?

—Eric Sullivan

Yemen

Why World Leaders Are Terrified of Water Shortages

—Nathan Halverson

The World’s Largest Coal Company Just Filed for Bankruptcy

—Tim McDonnell

Disturbing New Evidence About What Common Pesticides Can Do to Brains

—Tom Philpott

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

—Brian Joseph

The New York Primary Will Be a Big Fracking Deal

—Ari Phillips

What the Lunch Ladies Didn't Tell You

—Kiera Butler

Inky

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

—Tim McDonnell

VIDEO

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

Marco Rubio Had Some Really Dumb Things to Say About Climate Change Last Night

CHARTS

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

Here’s Something Else Donald Trump Is Totally Wrong About

INTERACTIVES

The Great Frack Forward

Deep Inside the Wild World of China's Fracking Boom

Here's How Many Ridiculously Hot Days Your City Will Have in the Future

MAPS

We've Barely Begun to Tap the Sun's Mighty Power

This Map Shows Where the Next Clean Energy Gold Mine Is

LONGREADS

Did California Figure Out How to Fix Global Warming?

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PHOTO ESSAYS

Five-year-old Ardian Azka Mubarok

Marlboro Boys: Indonesia's Youngest Smokers Light Up

Stunning Photos of California's Alternative-Energy Fields

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