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How Plants (Inside and Out) Promote Comfort at Home

From adding moisture to improving air quality to deflecting noise, plants can make you feel better at home.
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Study: Migration Heating Up in Fire-Prone Regions

Real estate is red-hot, literally and figuratively, in areas of the U.S. that are hard hit by climate change.
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Australian Apartment Shows How Single Stairs Make Small Buildings Better

If only one could do this in North America.
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Female Monkeys Purposefully Have Fewer Friends As They Age

Female rhesus macaques have smaller social groups as they age, likely because the benefits of social interaction change with time.
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How to Recycle Your Christmas Lights

It doesn’t feel right to put Christmas lights in a trash can. Check out your recycling options for Christmas lights.
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How to Speed Up the Development of a Food Forest

There are ways to accelerate ‘ecological succession’ and reap the benefits of a food forest in as little as 10 years.
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7 Tactics for Staying Warm in a Cool House

Do the green thing and resist reaching for the thermostat.
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German Rail Operator Switches to Reusable Cups, Plates to Curb Waste

Deutsche Bahn will now serve coffee in real porcelain mugs.
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Can Architects Survive in a World Where We Have to Build Less?

Australian architect Jennifer Crawford has a different model of practice.
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Vanguard Quits Key Climate Initiative—Will it Quit Climate Action Too?

Let’s pay as much attention when companies renege on or revise their commitments as when they first announced them.