Trump Rolled Back the Country’s Best Flood Protection Standards Two Weeks Before Harvey
A little-noticed executive action removed rules that would have held new infrastructure projects to a higher storm-proofing standard.
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Trump’s Failure to Set a Cost on Carbon Limits His Own Effort to Expand the Fossil Fuel Industry
A protracted delay in the Trump administration coming up with its own carbon-cost estimate could empower environmentalists pursuing legal challenges to mining.
American Cities Need New Social Welfare Systems to Support Their Citizens
In an age of employment uncertainty and a growing income gap, urban America needs to find new ways to infuse equity into the equation.
L.A. Is Testing a New, Communal Approach to Fighting Homelessness
Residents can get up to $75,000 to build a "granny flat"—if they open it up to a homeless family.
The Paradox of Purpose and Its Relationship to Extremism
What happens when achieving your purpose comes at the expense of someone else?
The Indonesian Government Is Forcing Private Companies to Pay for Damaging Its Forests
The government hopes to use the collected penalties to fund restoration efforts in the degraded Indonesian land and forests. Without the penalties, no restoration work can start.
Russian Propaganda Bots Have Helped Amplify Right-Wing Extremism Online After Charlottesville
The Internet and social media provide Russia cheap, efficient, and highly effective access to foreign audiences with plausible deniability of their influence.
Trump’s Proposed USAID Budget Cuts Worry Kenyan Conservationists
Overall, nations in the developing world are in limbo over the cuts, and worried they'll lose vital USAID funds.
What Police Can Do Differently When Protestors Are Armed and Violent
"We saw it coming," said a Virginia officer, but they couldn't stop it. Still, law enforcement experts say measures can be taken—even when protestors are armed.
How Wild Animals React to Eclipses
Five examples of what some researchers have observed and recorded in the past few decades.