Topic: climate change
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Why Energy Use Is Really Water Use
Pumping water from where it's abundant to where it's not takes a lot of energy.
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As Sea Levels Rise, Venice Sinks
Research shows the Italian city is still subsiding, a problem made worse by rising sea levels.
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Urban Wonk
What Communities Should Do To Protect Against Climate Change
Nine low-tech steps we can take to mitigate the effects of global warming.
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Maps
Mapping How the Seas Will Eat Coastal U.S. Cities
Miami, Boston, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and other places that could have entire neighborhoods underwater by 2050.
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Photos
The Gorgeous, Green Headquarters of Oil and Logging Companies
These corporations might not have tons of fans in the environmental movement, but you wouldn't know that looking at their idealistic architecture choices.
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The Climate Plans That Aren't Helping Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new study finds citywide plans are not as effective as smaller-scale initiatives.
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Gardens on Top of City Buses: This Would Never Work
Attention, media: Please stop writing about bus-roof gardens as if they could actually exist in real life.
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How Climate Change Could Be the Ruin of Los Angeles
If the models hold true, L.A. is in store for a double whammy of floods and drinking water shortages.
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New York City in Line for Dozens of '100-Year Floods' Every Century
If the climate continues to warm, Manhattan could face crippling deluges every 3 to 20 years by the end of the century, say MIT researchers.
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Why the Most Environmental Building is the Building We've Already Built
A new report suggests that retrofitting is almost always more energy efficient
