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Mothers across the world have long massaged their babies to improve their health. Now, medical researchers are refining these practices to maximize the benefits.

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This 1960s New York co-op has fully electrified its heating and cooling. Now utility bills are plummeting, residents are raving — and others are taking notice.

Hannah Wallace writes about everything from regenerative agriculture and natural food trends to cannabis startups, maverick winemakers and food justice activists.

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The first thing Kristine McDivitt Tompkins had to do when she arrived in Chile more than three decades ago was tear down fences. Demolishing 700 kilometers of barbed wire in the rough terrain that she ...

Insects flit from flower to flower. Tall grasses sway in the breeze. Paths meander through the greenery, and the dappled shade of potted trees dances in the sunlight. But this is no ordinary garden.