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Holly Warren was recently leafing through one of her old medical school textbooks, trying to recall how much instruction she’d received in addiction medicine — trying to recall, “Did we even talk ...

Swiss architect Barbara Buser has spent decades proving that the greenest building is often the one already standing. When one unscrews a section of the bright red sheet metal façade from K.118, a ...

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Once among the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has made a massive U-turn on air quality — thanks, in part, to EVs.

The fast-growing Climate First Bank is financing clean energy projects one relationship at a time — and it hopes other community banks will follow suit. Once heavily channelized, the Gila River is ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. It’s part of a new trend in the AI boom. More developers are proposing to build data centers in or near active ...

On a cool spring morning in Washington state, the work of saving an endangered species unfolds in an unlikely place: a greenhouse just outside the perimeter of a women’s prison. Inside, trays of host ...

Anybody can visit Etteln with the click of a mouse. As Ulrich Ahle’s pointer flies over the rooftops of his hometown — past half-timbered houses, the historic church and verdant fields — it’s clear ...

In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a quiet revolution in end-of-life practices is underway. At Ramsey Creek Preserve near Westminster, South Carolina, the deceased do not rest under rows ...

For the homeless women who board the Panarosa bus on the streets of Caracas, their first point of contact might be Mariannys Quintero. Quintero, a nursing assistant, welcomes them to the bus, where ...