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The elections were a mixed bag for all things urban, but despite a couple of big losses, mass transit came out smelling like roses.
Vehicle accidents are the top danger to oil and gas workers, and as drilling increases, so do fatalities. But incidents often go unreported.
Because you don't get to have nice things, is why.
Thanks to climate change, wildfire season is getting longer and more severe. In the Southwest, forests are on course to disappear altogether.
Water animals decrease in size at ten times the rate of land animals under warming conditions.
Recent evidence that growing a diversity of crops would solve many of Big Ag's problems is encouraging, but it will take a larger shift in the culture of commodity farming to see any real results.
The Times' graphic description of the fire at a Bangladeshi clothing manufacturer is a graphic depiction of externalized costs.
Assuming that summer school involves desperately trying to keep ice from melting.
Sugar riot! Harvard study shows a correlation between sweet sodas and violence in kids.
