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This video of a city-sized iceberg breaking off from a glacier will blow your mind
Watch the largest glacier breakup ever filmed.
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This gingerbread Brooklyn is way too amazing to eat
Think how many people could live in/eat this dense, walkable, edible neighborhood!
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As deadline for saving wind industry nears, wind advocates fold
With a key tax credit for the wind industry due to expire on Dec. 31, the main wind advocacy group says a phaseout of the credit would be OK.
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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U.K. reapproves fracking, because it’s jealous of how cool we are
After halting fracking due to concerns over earthquakes, the U.K. has once again fallen victim to American soft power.
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Watch a baby hippo learn how to eat
Aw, look at her trying to figure out why hippo food pellets look so unappetizing!
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Peace in a pod: How tiny apartments could reshape the big city
Microhousing promises the kind of density essential for building sustainable cities -- but it doesn't always go over smoothly with the neighbors.
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Public transit use is up — again!
For the seventh consecutive quarter, millions more Americans rode trains, subways, and buses.
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From bike shares to urban farms, Philadelphia is on the rise
And a new office of urban innovation could spur even more eco-futurism in the City of Brotherly Love.
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David Roberts talks renewable energy on MSNBC’s ‘Up With Chris Hayes’
Here's the second part of my appearance on Chris Hayes' show, including a pitch for viewers to give Grist a billion dollars.
