Cities & Planning

Posted on Friday 26 Aug 2022. 899 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

The Natural Areas program is critical for preserving native biodiversity in the state, but climate change is challenging its future.

Turbulent's hydroelectric turbines bring clean, reliable and affordable renewable energy to thousands of remote locations where hydropower was never viable before.

Shipping coffee via sailboat is less pricey and more efficient than container ships because of high oil prices and port congestion, Café William said.

Industrial Design Project by: Konstantin Wolf Lea Haats Erik Mantz-Hansen 2021 Muthesius University Kiel, Germany What is ABACUS? ABACUS is a public transportation…

Thursday morning I saw two men trying to rescue a beached Mercedes at the edge of town. They were on a sandbar in the Colorado, below the overpass that connects north Austin with the airport. You couldn’t tell how the car had gotten there, at least not from the vantage I had up there on the old bridge that has been repurposed for pedestrian and bicycle use. The only visible tracks were of the backhoe that had driven out there shortly before I showed up, and was now poking around in the sand trying to figure out a viable extraction strategy. You also couldn’t tell if one of the guys was the owner of the car, trying to mitigate the damages of a wild Wednesday night, or if they were just an enterprising pair practicing the long Texas tradition of taking whatever bounty nature offers, by whatever means available.

There are at least half a dozen major Western water pipeline projects under consideration, ranging from ambitious to outlandish.

An atlas moth has been discovered in Bellevue, WA and officials are seeking reports of additional sightings of the moth.

Just as their understanding becomes more clear, it’s starting to disappear.

Some 107 million Americans will experience heat index temperatures above 125 degrees F by 2053, according to a new report.

It’s open season for a shift in wildlife management.

Mimicking the peaks of the surrounding conifers, an A-frame house in Sikhall, Vänersborg, Sweden is designed for entirely self-sufficient living. The largely wood and glass construction is the project of Naturvillan, a Swedish architecture firm focusing on building homes with minimal impacts on the

The country is already seeing the impacts of hotter, more widespread heat waves.

Only a relatively small fraction of gas actually, you know, moves your car around. The rest is wasted.

EV drivers don’t need to worry about gas prices on their next American road trip—but they will need to look out for electric deserts

Lawns are bad for you, your pets and the planet. It’s time to move on to greener pastures.

The complex systems dance of cause and effect

L5 vehicles need at least 10 more years of development.

The Seattle author's new book 'At Home on an Unruly Planet' highlights how communities on the front lines of floods, fire and other disasters are finding resilience.

Scientists are studying the evolution of Emmons Glacier and its implications on watersheds throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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They're stuck on the front lines and need help relocating — but the U.S. government isn’t prepared.

Now, in 2022, those findings feel tragically prescient.