The old traffic math that keeps destroying neighborhoods

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By Andy Boenau, Fast Company It’s been guiding road design for decades—and it never measured what really matters. [Source Image: gremlin/Getty Images] If you want to understand how even modern American cities became hostile to human life, don’t start with the political conspiracies; look at the way city planners and road engineers calculate success. …

Global Climate Talks Resumed This Week in Germany, For the First Time in 30 Years Without the United States

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By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News At a Bonn conference on climate, some participants say there’s a chance to make progress with the world’s biggest economy, America, no longer in the room. Delegates gather at the World Conference Center for a U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting. For the …

Illinois must protect the Great Lakes from invasive carp. A toxic mess stands in the way.

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By Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Grist Only 40 miles separate voracious Asian carp from the world’s largest freshwater ecosystem. To stop them, Illinois must reckon with its legacy of coal ash pollution. Benjamin Lowy / Getty Images Last week, Illinois officials took possession of a 50-acre stretch of riverbed in Chicago’s shipping …

Helping birds and floating solar energy coexist

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Phys.Org A Great Egret rests atop an floating solar project. Credit: Rebecca R. Hernandez, UC Davis From a small California winery to a large-scale energy project in China, floating photovoltaics—or “floatovoltaics”—are gaining in popularity. Commonly installed over artificial water bodies, from irrigation ponds and reservoirs to wastewater treatment plants, floating …

Trump administration to stop US research on space pollution, in boon to Elon Musk

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By Tom Perkins, The Guardian SpaceX and Starlink owner may benefit from Trump cuts to projects that could have led to regulations and costs. An artist’s impression of an approximate 12,000 objects in orbit around Earth. Photograph: ESA/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration is poised to kill federal research into pollution from satellites and …