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What's the most promising way to extend electricity to those who now lack it? Is it top-down, extending the centralized grid and building large power plants? Or is it bottom-up, with distributed energy?
A megafire broke out this week along Alaska's southern coast, which could be a sign of what's to come for the warming state.
Rather than armchair postulating about what MIGHT work better, one transit firm did some real-time analysis and videotaped the results.
The documentary "Free Swim" suggests that learning to swim can lift black kids up. But poverty, racism, and colonialism are tough nuts to crack.
Vincent Meertens and his girlfriend Larissa tracked all their bike trips for a year.
The Colorado house has no heating system, but it has a greenhouse warm enough to grow bananas, a solar-heated hot tub, and killer views.
The lighted sheet looks like a magical page from an unpublished Harry Potter book. (Or a glow-in-the-dark Barbie hammock.)
For half the world's oceans, there are no fishing rules. Banning fishing there would boost fisheries closer to shores and make the whole enterprise more sustainable.
The area around Aspen, Colo., enjoys a great bus system and bikeshare program. Take that, big cities.