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Which underwater Boston do you like best?
As rising sea levels begin to threaten to submerge big chunks of the city, Boston holds a contest to spark novel ideas for saving some landmarks.
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New York City could be 9 degrees warmer and 39 inches wetter by 2080
And other alarming details from the city's latest climate change report.
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Miami is already sinking under rising sea levels
You don’t have to look 85 years into the future to see what a warming world looks like -- you only need to look as far as Miami.
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A surprising tool to slow gentrification: Land trusts
Community land trusts can guarantee a level of economic diversity in urban neighborhoods, and help locals take charge of their own destiny.
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How Chicago’s Little League scandal cheats city kids
The young players from Jackie Robinson West were stripped of their Little League title. City kids everywhere may have lost a lot more.
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Will San Francisco’s water snobs drink from the gutter?
California's persistent drought has led San Francisco to take a second look at its long-neglected underground streams and springs.
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Can we green the hood without gentrifying it?
How gentrification dirties up environmental cleanups.
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Who says gentrification is a myth?
Recent reports claim that gentrification is fiction. But it’s a fact of life for those who’ve been displaced by it.
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Enjoy it while it lasts — winter is moving north
A zippy new infographic shows how our winters are warming. Type in your city and find out whose secondhand seasons you'll have by 2100.
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5 surprising electric car Meccas
Electric cars are about to blow up in these cities -- and none are on the coasts.