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Good news for Kabul’s Tourism Bureau: The city’s air is unhealthy, but not full of feces
It is, however, unsafe to breathe.
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Insane pointillist map has 341,817,095 dots — one for every person in the U.S. and Canada
Someone has created a map with a dot for every single person living in the U.S. and Canada. You might not see yourself on it, but trust us, you're there.
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If transit doesn’t run on time, riders may just stop riding
People don't mind crowding so long as the bus or train shows up on time, according to a new study.
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New York’s Sandy-flooded South Ferry subway station is still a useless mess
New photos suggest that it's not going to be ready for use for at least another year, and repairs are expected to run $600 million or more.
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So much hope and so many problems for the L.A. river
After they tore down river wetlands, can the Army Corps be trusted to rebuild?
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Marcellus, N.Y., namesake of the Marcellus shale formation, bans fracking
A unanimous town board vote means that the namesake for the shale formation will never allow it to be fracked.
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Finally, you can display your love of public transit and show off your gams at the same time
The New York subway and your legs: a combination you probably never thought of, but now that it's been done it seems so obvious.
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Artist makes potholes useful by filling them with flowers and spaghetti
To you a pothole may look like evidence of crumbling infrastructure, but to Davide Luciano it looks like a nice place to garden, fish, or wash your dog.
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Do cities really take the lead on climate change?
Cities tend to adopt easier policies first, according to a new report.
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Feds mark territory all over L.A. wildlife habitat
Weeks after destroying dozens of acres of wildlife habitat, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is mum on why they did it.
