Transportation infrastructure, such as roads and railway systems, is one of the sectors most threatened by climate change. Extreme weather events—such as flooding, sea level rises and storm surges—repeatedly wreak havoc ...
Environment
Jun 11, 2021
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China will press ahead with its multi-billion-dollar financing of coal plants in developing countries, a top climate official said Tuesday, despite Beijing's stated aim of slashing carbon emissions.
Environment
Apr 27, 2021
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The Victorian government has committed to removing 75 road/rail level crossings across Melbourne by 2025. That's the fastest rate of removal in the city's history. The scale of the investment—at least A$14.8 billion—and ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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China's plan to fund dozens of foreign coal plants from Zimbabwe to Indonesia is set to produce more emissions than major developed nations, threatening global efforts to fight climate change, environmentalists have warned.
Environment
Dec 10, 2020
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The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation's environmental laws for the past four years. Decisions at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior ...
Environment
Nov 12, 2020
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Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new way of estimating population in countries where carrying out a full census is difficult to achieve.
Social Sciences
Nov 02, 2020
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If an infrastructure megaproject is completed late and over budget, it is widely judged to be unsuccessful. For instance, the delay to Crossrail, a new train line across London and the south east of England, has been labeled ...
Economics & Business
Oct 06, 2020
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COVID-19 is a major global shock that has turned our lives upside down, but how does it measure up on the grand billion-year scale of Earth history? The answer puts our human dramas in the largest perspective—and may yet ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2020
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To President Trump and some of his friends, a clean environment seems to be an afterthought. This is a 20th-century mindset that I found typical when I first started to work on environmental issues in 1975 but has become ...
Environment
Jun 08, 2020
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Urban scientists at the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation on Oct. 23 launched the Million Neighborhoods Map—a groundbreaking visual tool that provides the first comprehensive look at informal ...
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2019
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