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Researchers mapped L.A.’s emissions with incredible detail. Is your city next?
A new project shows the emissions from every road and building in the nearly 5,000 square miles of the Los Angeles metro area.
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This group is teaching new sailors how to tackle plastic pollution
Greta Thunberg isn’t the only one setting sail to save the planet.
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In Detroit, ‘revolutionary’ mapping could help residents with asthma
As the forest moves back in, pollen is on the rise in Detroit.
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The climate change ‘tipping point’ has already arrived for these 70 U.S. counties
It’s not your imagination: your city may be getting hotter faster than the rest of the U.S.
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Can the ‘masters of the flood’ help Texas protect its coast from hurricanes?
Dutch flood-control experts are helping Texas design what would become the nation’s most ambitious (and expensive) coastal barrier.
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![The day after the Manhattanhenge on 42nd street, Manhattan, New York City.]()
![The day after the Manhattanhenge on 42nd street, Manhattan, New York City.]()
How NYC is protecting people from the deadliest disaster
New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from the deadliest disaster: heat.
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Uber and Lyft admit they’re terrible for traffic, finally
Ride-hailing services aren’t taking cars off the road, but a new transit experiment called Via might.
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This transit experiment is a cross between Uber and the bus
Watch us race to a local park and figured out a few pros and cons along the way.
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The Notre Dame disaster carpeted Paris with lead dust
A French environmental group is suing the city over widespread lead dust contamination released in the historic cathedral fire on April 15.
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Natural gas leaks are a much bigger problem than we thought
Major U.S. cities are leaking methane at twice the rate calculated by the EPA.
