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Americans spent $18.8 million in food stamps at farmers markets last year
At farmers markets, accepting SNAP benefits is a win for low-income shoppers – and farmers, too.
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Oslo builds its bees a highway of flowers
We've crowded nature out of much of our cities -- but we can always invite it back in.
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What will happen to a sinking California? Just ask San Luis Obispo
An overdependence on groundwater is costing millions of dollars in damage in the idyllic coastal town.
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This chart will silence your friends who make excuses for climate change
You know all those other explanations for climate change? A brilliant infographic shows how lame they actually are.
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Why the bee crisis isn’t as bad as you think (but still matters)
Bees aren't vanishing, but their troubles can offer clues to long-term problems in our agricultural system.
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This short film narrated by Carl Sagan will give you shivers
A three-minute film could make you feel a little more optimistic about the future.
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There are just 97 of these adorable porpoises left
The Gulf of California's vaquita is critically endangered, thanks to rampant gill-net fishing.
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The “secret science committee” behind the pope’s encyclical
The Pontifical Academy is the "400-year-old collective ... that operates as the pope’s eyes and ears on the natural world."
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What would the planet look like without lichen?
Lichens are "exquisitely" threatened by climate change, and could go extinct within a century.
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The pope’s climate change encyclical, in tweets
The pontiff is tweeting up a storm about his new climate change encyclical.
