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To keep the lights on, Oslo needs to import trash from the U.S.
The city of Oslo is powered by garbage. Which is great, until there's no garbage. Hey ... we've got garbage!
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There may be terrifying predatory land-walking fish in Central Park
There are probably snakehead fish in Central Park. They won't eat you, but that's about the only good news.
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Restoring a community garden in the Sandy-torn Rockaways
Hurricane Sandy destroyed the Seagirt Boulevard Community Garden. Now, a group of volunteers is working hard to rebuild this important green fixture.
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San Francisco and 10 other cities move toward dumping stocks in fossil-fuel companies
A divestment campaign pushed by 350.org is spreading from colleges to cities. Boulder, Colo., Eugene, Ore., and Ithaca, N.Y. are also on board.
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Pictures of empty Boston are kind of a punch in the gut
Seeing a major city as a ghost town is incredibly sobering.
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This video of a sewer geyser in Chicago is utterly nuts
Chicago got a little bit of rain. And then it got a little bit of GEYSERS OF SEWER WATER SPEWING OUT OF THE STREET.
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Would you believe Miami has the most efficient road system in the country?
Of the biggest U.S. cities, Miami is the most efficient in terms of amount of highway. (Atlanta is the worst.)
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High-end European-style bike tracks — the next big thing in the hood?
They may seem like they've been dropped in from another planet, but supporters say velodromes give inner city kids a healthy pastime while helping build a vibrant urban cycling culture.
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Here’s what it would look like if we connected every subway from Canada to Mexico
We'd still have next to no coverage in the Midwest.
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For Cleveland, climate change could mean tons of toxic green algae
Heavy agriculture and global warming are aligning to produce nasty algae blooms in the Great Lakes, scientists say.
