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Gary He/Reuters A new report examines the human toll of the hurricane.
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Charts
Big Cities on the Rise
Cities in the South and the West are leading the urban influx.
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Toilet Tuesday: Metal Thieves Finally Find Public Bathrooms
Your weekly roundup of the world's classiest toilet news.
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What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Gang-Related Crime
Police typically identify gang territories by tracking crime, graffiti and other clues. But a simple ecological equation might do the job even better.
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Matchmaking Abandoned Properties With Ideas for Reuse
An Italian website compiles crowd wisdom and ideas to utilize vacant properties.
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Climate Change at the Neighborhood Level
Researchers in Los Angeles try out a more granular approach to temperature change estimates.
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Maps
Watch These American Cities Segregate, Even As They Diversify
No, we have not reached the end of segregation. Something much more complicated is going on.
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What's Making China Fat?
Obesity rates have skyrocketed in China over the last generation, at the same time that its cities have exploded. A group of researchers is now trying to pin down the relationship between the two.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: The Great Sidewalk Chalk Drawing Menace
Also, Mumbai silences "laughing yoga" practitioners and Seattle prohibits a cancer survivor from swimming topless.
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Freeway Removal Hits a Roadblock in the Bronx
Reports of the death of the Sheridan Expressway have been greatly exaggerated.
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Charts
Visualization of the Day: The Population Growth of 590 Cities
This chart might break your brain.
