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Why fight like hell for a town that others have given up for lost? Because it's yours.

Without room to roam, Florida's big cats are roadkill waiting to happen

Some people scavenge food from dumpsters not because they need to, but because they hate to see so much go to waste.

The children of Central California farmworkers have launched a ground-level battle against agribusiness.

The Pentagon will no longer tolerate oil's "burden in blood."

The limestone landscape of Ireland's Burren is far from barren, with 700 species of flora

Turn a circuit sheet into a billfold

Can wilderness adventure repair the ravages of war?

A cellist's self-propelled musical tour comes with flat tires, Clif Bars, and a lot of new friends

The EPA is slow to move on pesticide blamed in honeybee collapse

Mr. Green helps a reader choose the greenest lawnmower

Mr. Green answers: "Should I replace my washing machine?"

Rx against street violence: scuba

A father and son climb El Capitan

In conversation with a vegan ultra ultramarathoner

A stroll through the woods can inspire, but to experience nature as your fleet-footed ancestors did, lose the clunky shoes

What makes a community livable? How about getting rid of cars?

How a pedaling purist learned to love (or at least not be so embarrassed by) electric bikes