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Over a million Americans have given up on the house and white picket fence, in search of a freer life on the road. Is #RVLife the new “American Dream”?

Palm oil is destroying rainforests and threatening extinction of orangutans, tigers, rhinos and elephants

Michigan becomes 10th state to legalize recreational weed. Utah and Missouri are now among 33 states where medical marijuana is legal.

Along with his pledge to sell off their rainforest home to agribusiness and mining, Bolsonaro has said openly “minorities will have to adapt … or simply disappear”

Credit: Charlie Hamilton James, National Geographic

A woman who helped reverse a rule against bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and GMO crops on national wildlife refuges has been chosen to oversee the protection (or some say destruction) of national wildlife refuges

Humans are the only mammals who don’t nap during the day, but more and more studies suggest we should

Study finds we ingest more than 100 plastic microfibers from our polyester clothing per meal

After finding microplastics in our seafood, salt and drinking water, scientists have now confirmed there is plastic in our poop too

China is rapidly and illegally gobbling up the world’s second largest rainforest, in Africa, to fuel America’s appetite for cheap furniture.