Climate Cities
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Chicago’s garbage trucks will be rollin’ on volts
Our trash won't be riding dirty for too much longer. North America's first electric garbage truck is rolling through Chicago.
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Steal this environmental justice journal
Free for the next two weeks: Some of the best research about the health disparities and environmental burdens suffered by people of color and modest resources around the globe.
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If these corals can make it in Miami, they’ll make it anywhere
Coral reefs are dying off worldwide, but in the murky waters off of Miami, one man found some remarkable survivors.
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Environmental justice works — and these folks show us how
Activists around the country are shaping public decisions -- and reshaping their communities for the better.
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Why the Kashmir floods have been so deadly
The disaster highlights the cost of careless urban planning and environmental mismanagement.
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How to give a community a soul
Charming neighborhoods are not magic. They can be developed with smart public policy.
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Katrina and Sandy cost over 2,000 lives. Will we do better next time?
A new project looks back at the superstorms that have ravaged U.S. coasts, and at storms yet to come.
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Vegas tops the list of the country’s worst heat islands
On a real scorcher of a day, the mercury downtown can roar 24 degrees above the temps in the surrounding desert. Other cities are feeling the heat, too.
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Leaving Las Vegas, a city feeling the slow burn of climate change
I came for the apocalypse. I got art instead.
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Joel Kotkin thinks you want to live in Houston. Here’s why you don’t.
Even many of the Americans who want to live in a single-family home would prefer that home to be in walkable neighborhood near transit.
