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Ugly by law: Check out how parking requirements shape our cities

Here's a photo essay on how off-street parking minimums shape our neighborhoods and architecture.

Alyse Nelson Cities June 20, 2013

Now you can help expand Google Maps, by lugging a weird heavy camera around for free

You never seem to have enough luggage when you're climbing the Himalayas. Now you could haul a camera for a massive corporation for no compensation whatsoever!

Holly Richmond Technology July 2, 2013

No kidding: “Reproductive success” might mean not reproducing

Choosing to be childfree is neither unnatural nor selfish. We're already overutilizing the resources that today's children and their children will need to survive.

Robert Walker Culture August 11, 2013

Wind industry and enviros team up to study bird deaths

A new project will collect and publish hitherto secret data on bird kills at wind farms, aiming to help a clean energy source get even cleaner.

John Upton Technology June 21, 2013

Why are some states trying to ban LEED green building standards?

The influential timber industry has its own set of standards, and environmentalists aren't happy.

Emily Badger Technology August 30, 2013

Fracking industry cleanup workers exposed to benzene in Colorado, feds allege

Workers sent to clean up natural-gas liquid spilled by a plant that processes fracked gas near Parachute Creek, Colo., were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals.

John Upton Technology July 12, 2013

This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off

Whole Foods did a little experiment and pulled all produce pollinated by bees. The resulting photo is crazy.

Holly Richmond Food and Agriculture June 14, 2013

Offshore fracking in California: What could go wrong?

Operators have been fracking off the coast of California since the late '90s, unbeknownst to state regulators and with little federal oversight.

Claire Thompson Technology August 5, 2013

The Maldives, a fledgling democracy at the vanguard of climate change

An IPCC report on future sea-level rise looms, but climate issues have been absent from the political campaigns on the paradise atolls.

Damian Carrington, The Guardian Politics September 26, 2013

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