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While everybody knows that water is a limited and much sought after resource, a new UN report announced that the world’s second most exploited resource is also in grave danger: sand...

A plan for the world’s most sustainable city has been designed and is expected to welcome its first residents by 2030. Proposed for construction in an undecided desert location in the United States, the city of Telosa is...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, also known as SOM, will design the Olympic Village for the upcoming 2026 games in Milan-Cortina. The new village will be a part of the updated Porta Romana Railway Yard Master Plan.[...]

Finland’s capital city of Helsinki launched a sustainability app this summer that lets residents, tourists and business owners make smarter daily choices that contribute to the metropolis' goal of reaching carbon neutrality...

On Thursday March 14, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City unveiled a $10 billion plan to prepare lower Manhattan for the inevitable invasion of sea level rise predicted with climate change...

The phrase "global warming" gets tossed around a lot, but do we really understand what it means and how it will feel? In the groundbreaking Paris Agreement, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius...

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Auckland have created a 16-part questionnaire for parents called the CNI-PPC (Connected to Nature Index-Parents of Preschool Children) to identify how well children...

A recent study shows that symptoms of depression can be reduced for people who have access to green spaces. Researchers in Philadelphia transformed vacant lots in the city into green spaces and found that adults living near...

The elevated summer temperatures in California are causing decreased levels of the low-atmosphere clouds that were once common throughout the southern coastal regions of the state...

The Trump Administration has re-prioritized which kinds of communities, and what kinds of projects, receive funding from the popular $500 million transportation grant program known as TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating...

Urban areas don't tend to be too kind for hedgehogs. As they're declining in Britain, some people are trying to help. Enter Michel Birkenwald, a jeweler Atlas Obscura described as "one of London's most enthusiastic engineers...

Ready to commute in style? BMW just unveiled a futuristic, zero-emission motorbike at the Concorso D’eleganza Villa D’este, showing us what the motorcycle of the future looks like...

The San Francisco Giants baseball team finds their home at AT&T Park alongside San Francisco Bay. In addition to baseball games, concerts, and special events, guests can now mingle, learn and sample healthy treats in...

The San Francisco Giants baseball team finds their home at AT&T Park alongside San Francisco Bay. In addition to baseball games, concerts, and special events, guests can now mingle, learn and sample healthy treats in...

San Francisco recently played host to a 3-day explosion of interactive street art and urban interventions along Market Street, a major boulevard through the downtown...