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Lydia Larsen is a science and environmental journalist based in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Her work has appeared in Inside Climate News, Sierra, Hakai and Nature, among others.

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After a decade behind bars, it wasn’t the fields that stretched for kilometers around him that struck Nicolas when he first set foot on the farm. It was the smell. “I’ve been through six different ...

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A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health. The communist-era farmhouse at the Hungarian Open Air ...

When musician David Byrne, the founder of Reasons to be Cheerful, performed at the sold-out Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles last fall, the entire crowd was on its feet for almost the entire show. I ...

Jimmy G. was a distracted and disruptive fifth grader. “In the morning, when he came in, he’d be up in everybody’s business, up and out of his chair, constantly blurting stuff out,” says Amy Young, ...

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 ...