Climate Cities
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You don’t even wanna know what happens if we burn all the fossil fuels
But it involves no more Antarctic ice and WAY more ocean.
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New York’s natural gas pipelines are leakier than your grandpa
Old infrastructure is spewing a greenhouse gas all over Manhattan.
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Low-income, black women largely ignored in Katrina recovery
Ten years later, some women say they feel like they were better off before the storm.
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New Orleans’ transit system still hasn’t recovered, 10 years after Katrina
And it wasn't good to begin with.
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How an inspiring group of women built one of the greenest buildings in Portland
This African-American sorority turned an old gas station into a sleek eco-paradise.
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Sea levels will rise by at least 20 feet — and that’s the positive scenario
Even if the world manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees C, sea levels may still radically reshape the world’s coastline.
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Thanks to social change, urban density ain’t what it used to be
To reduce greenhouse emissions, we need more people living in densely built city cores. But lifestyle changes and inequality are making that harder to achieve.
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This amazing map is a guide to San Francisco’s hidden waterways
A new map shows where you can catch glimpses of San Francisco's original watershed system underneath the urban skin.
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Oslo builds its bees a highway of flowers
We've crowded nature out of much of our cities -- but we can always invite it back in.
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There’s no “new Brooklyn” because Brooklyn isn’t even the new Brooklyn
Grist's Ben Adler and MSNBC's Tony Dokoupil talk about Adler's essay on how gentrifying cities can avoid the mistakes Brooklyn has made.