Cities & Planning

How healthy ecosystems and aquifers can moderate extreme rainfall and drought

Researchers in China have now made a device that can directly split seawater to make hydrogen fuel. This could solve the fuel cell water sourcing problem, in a world where clean water is a precious commodity to which a third of the world lacks easy access.

(Leer en español aquí.)   Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole.  Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere.  It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]

By Robert Gioielli Teaching the history of racism in America can be a difficult thing. Not because students deny it, but because it is something that is so ubiquitous, so all encompassing, that man…

Scientists say "floatovoltaics" hold promise, especially on hydropower reservoirs — but the environmental impacts are still unclear.

Strange diseases are spreading in Blackfeet Country. Can canines track down the culprits?

In the face of climate change and persistent droughts, a growing number of people from Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico and elsewhere are adopting the traditional farming practice.

Early next year, a construction grant will be awarded and work will start on a $20 million overhaul of four east-west streets in Pioneer Square, kicking off one of the final independent projects as…

Having covered developments in transforming Totem Lake as well as the Downtown and Rose Hill corridor, what remains to tally up in Kirkland are the developments in smaller nodes of density. Juanita…

At the junction of SR 520 and Montlake Boulevard in Seattle, construction crews are busy at work laying the foundation for the Montlake lid, the first roof built over a freeway in Seattle since the…

The City’s Comp Plan is seriously flawed from the start. Seattle knows how to get serious when we need to, whether that’s building trillion dollar companies or signing up for one of the large…

Cellular and microbial agriculture can make the same amount of food on a fraction of the land.

Camouflaged moorings for ships and submarines hidden along the coastline of Montenegro give a fascinating insight into Cold War tensions.

Underground greenhouses are helping people to take back control of their nutrition and ease farming amid the climate crisis

In the song “Five Feet High and Rising,” Johnny Cash sings “Well, the rails are washed out north of town/ We got to head for higher ground/ We can’t come back till the water…

Everyone wants a piece of the lovingly nicknamed "Appalachian banana.” Can the species survive warming temperatures?

New rules provide opportunities to develop employment centers north of the Ship Canal. Now that the Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development has completed the Final Environmental Impact…

Never mind the yuck factor: precision fermentation could produce new staple foods, and end our reliance on farming, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“Biology is wonderous in the vast diversity of what it can build, but it can't make a crystal of silicon, or steel, or copper, or aluminum, or titanium, or virtually any of the key materials on which modern technology is built. Without such materials, how is this self-replicating nanobot ever going to make a radio, or a laser, or an ultrafast memory, or virtually any other key component of modern technological society that isn't made of