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The urban farm in South Central, the largest urban farm in America, is no more. Despite raising millions of dollars, the farmers and activists...
The South Central Farm, the country's largest urban farm, began its demise at the end of last week, when the city of LA gave it back to...
With the current iteration of Tea Party movement still relatively young, it's difficult to tell whether it will become a lasting voice in our...
Those Scandinavians have done it again. Excess body heat in Stockholm's Central Station is being used to heat a building across the street.
Nothing But Nets reports good news about the spread of malaria nets in the Central African Republic
The directing team behind music videos for Björk and Grizzly Bear is building a town and farm from the ground up in the hills of central California.
Eduardo Rivera's photographs invite us into people’s homes, showcasing warm kitchens and laundry hanging on the line.
A tree may grow in Brooklyn, but there's a 14-acre farm in South Central Los Angeles. It's been there since 1994, donated to residents by the...
We generally like to highlight the good rather than harp on the bad. That said, we thought this list of the ten most polluted places in the world...
Brownfields, which are defined by the state of New Jersey as "former commercial or industrial sites where the authorities know or suspect that the...
The Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, Pope Benedict's right-hand man, has decreed that polluting the environment is a sin. This is kind of amazing....
One word: plastics. Well, it's those and greases and lubricants and the rest of DuPont's messy chemical products, actually, that have landed the...
A new hospital study finds that the brutal smog produced by Milanese traffic is having a direct effect on infant mortality and other child...
According to a 2007 Cornell University study, pollution is responsible for 40 percent of deaths worldwide. In an attempt to reverse the trend,...
The media loves a good story about how China has shed its old industrial ways and is leading the charge into a clean economy. We've even done it,...
Two NYU students have designed clothes that can tell you when you're in contact with too much carbon monoxide. Stay fashionable, breathe easier.
In a series of hauntingly gorgeous photographs entitled “SOUP,” Mandy Barker captures the bright, plastic debris that covers our oceans.
Dense urban centers are great, but we still have to find some room for nature in the city. Los Angeles hasn't done a great job of this in the...
For the second time in a month, terrible air pollution in Tehran has forced officials to close government offices and schools.
This We Know is a new site with a grand goal: to synthesize all public government data into a single semantic web application. They've got a way...
