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If you’re a climate hawk, or even a climate hobbyist, this graph should look familiar — it’s the warming trend...
In the annals of absurdly sexed up science stories crying for attention like, oh, some addled TV star, we have...
Chile crops just couldn’t take the heat from the February cold snap.Photo: Demetri MouratisWhat a difference a few days of...
Road to ruin.Photo: Alfonso SurrocaCrappy urban development isn’t just ugly and noisy and dirty. It is turning out to be...
The power of an elevated freeway to dominate and degrade a city’s streets is overwhelming. So much so that if...
Hungry kids may be getting less cheddar.The House Appropriations Committee has released a detailed list of budget cuts as part...
What if saving a rundown city wasn’t about building expensive new infrastructure — hardware, so to speak — but instead...
This story was written by Shanti Menon. In her new book Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation, Berkeley-based...
Map: RTDN.org and Google Maps What if Foursquare were good for something? It might look a little like this. Crowd-sourced...