As climate change ravages coastal livelihoods, piracy is on the rise, imperilling seafarers and trade.
Water runs into a storm drain in a Los Angeles alley on Aug. 19, 2023, during Tropical Storm Hilary.
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US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals were designed to address extreme poverty, social inequality, the climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity.
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Social inclusion gives slum dwellers a voice to advocate for their rights and interests, leading to more inclusive and equitable policies and practices.
Wild turkeys in a yard on Staten Island, N.Y.
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Wild turkeys were overhunted across the US through the early 1900s, but made a strong comeback. Now, though, numbers are declining again. Two ecologists parse the evidence and offer an explanation.
Hoarding can start in childhood with no trigger, or later in life after life events such as relationship changes.
Girls carry a dying sheep in the Cconchaccota community of the Apurimac region of Peru as more than 3,000 communities in the central and southern Andes experience its driest period in half a century in November 2022.
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Not all types of ground are the same and understanding how varied ground types react to environmental stresses is key to achieving true sustainability.
Teens are more clued in to family finances than many people think.
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The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
Technicians installing panels in one of East Africa’s largest solar farms, Rwamagana District, Rwanda.
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Women are most likely to feel unsafe in their cities or towns, but planning authorities have rarely listened to them. Here’s what we can do to change that.
About 20% of counties in the South are marked by “persistent poverty.”
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After a 20th-century manufacturing boom, the region has been in a decadeslong decline. Rural factory towns can blame technology and globalization for their woes.