Climate Cities
All Stories
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London wants its own High Line, but underground and with more fungus
The winner of London's search for a High Line analogue is a tunnel full of mushrooms.
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Massive wildfires are chewing through budgets as fast as they are forests
Climate change brings unpredictable disasters, and unpredictable disasters aren't budgeted for, which puts governments in a bind.
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Genius signs in London subway say what everyone’s thinking
Everyone knows there are unspoken rules about using public spaces, especially public spaces like subways where too many human beings are crammed together and touching each other.
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This poor guy got a $1,555 ticket for biking in New York City
The bicyclist is lucky the cop caught him. If he'd run any more lights he'd probably owe his firstborn to the NYPD.
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Old phone booths get new life as giant public fish tanks
Phone booths are the appendix of the urban landscape — useless and occasionally full of junk. So what better way to rehabilitate them than to fill them with fish? The phone booths, not your appendix.
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FYI, there are weird human bushes in Central Park today
Humanoid bushes are jumping up and scaring the piss out of people in New York.
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Chickens raised in New York backyards lay polluted eggs
Which absolutely should not surprise you.
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Jay-Z took the subway, so now nobody can say it’s not cool
Jay-Z condescended to take the subway from Canal Street to Atlantic Ave for the last of a series of concerts at the Barclays Center.
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The greenest mile: Chicago pushes the limits on sustainable streets
Officials in the Windy City just finished an extreme green makeover of an industrial thoroughfare. OK: It may not be much to look at, but wait till you see what’s inside.
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Does early snow disprove global warming?
Ha ha no. What are you, stupid? Come on. Grow up.