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Is Amazon’s new Seattle HQ the ultimate tech utopia?

Unlike many of its dot-com peers, Amazon has staked its claim in the city, rather than the suburbs. Now all it needs is more housing. And some nightlife. And...

Heather Smith Technology

Can we get people to move back to Detroit?

Once-mighty old industrial cities could sustain much larger populations, and that would be good for the environment. But is it realistic?

Ben Adler Cities

Texans should brace for more rainstorms, more drought, and more headaches

Climate change is doing a number on the Lone Star State.

Andrea Thompson Cities

Looking inside the SR 99 tunnel access pit

Seattle’s unbelievable transportation megaproject fustercluck

Seattle is involved in a slow-motion catastrophe, as construction of a new car-centric tunnel grinds to a halt and cost overruns loom.

David Roberts Politics

Bunge rejects deforestation promise, NC ag-gag law passes

Two downer updates: North Carolina won't protect whistleblowers on its farms, and an agribusiness giant's shareholders turn down protecting forests.

Nathanael Johnson Technology

These cafes are turning garbage into culinary gold

All over England, cafes are starting to source entire meals from grocery-store food waste.

Madeleine Thomas Culture

Ever heard of a self-healing building? Just wait

This nifty "bio-concrete" might help buildings stand a little longer.

Ana Sofia Knauf Technology

Could one of these robots save you in a climate disaster?

In a DARPA-sponsored contest, experts from industry and academia debut robots that could save our butts from climate disaster.

Amelia Urry Technology

Who is climate change killing this week?

California sea lion pups and New England moose -- that's who!

Suzanne Jacobs Science

Even Shell’s former chair says some fossil fuel divestment would make sense

Mark Moody-Stuart also says the world just isn't moving fast enough in the fight against climate change.

John Light Technology

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