How to make American cities bike-friendly
If you live in a city, riding a bike can be a great option to get you where you need to go. More and more people...
Southern California is losing its clouds, increasing the risk of more intense wildfires
The elevated summer temperatures in California are causing decreased levels of the low-atmosphere clouds that...
Nine African cities commit to reaching zero carbon by 2050
Nine cities across Africa, a continent vulnerable to climate change, are taking action. Recently, these cities...
These new electric trucks from Volvo could soon be collecting your garbage
Swedish multinational manufacturing company Volvo has revealed its two new electric truck models, designed with...
London considers car-free days to fight air pollution
London officials met at City Hall this week to discuss the best way to move forward with a ban on cars in certain...
Noise pollution is the new ‘secondhand smoke’ according to experts
Noise pollution is “the new secondhand-smoke." Researchers at New York University are conducting a five-year...
Lyft launches self-driving cars on the Las Vegas strip
For the first time ever, after you're done partying on the strip, you'll be able to hail an autonomous ride with...
Newly discovered Amazon structures change what we know about ancient civilization
Researchers at the University of Exeter have discovered 81 earthworks known as geoglpyhs across 1,200 miles of...
Stockton, California is launching the first basic income experiment in the US
Stockton, a city of 300,000 located in California's Central Valley, will soon become the first city in the United...
China built the ‘World’s biggest air purifier’ – and it’s actually working
What has been called the world's largest air purifier by its operators is now up and running in the Chinese city...
Shanghai’s sponge districts fight flooding with green space
Shanghai's Lingang District has installed major green spaces in an effort to improve the city's drainage and environment....
New NASA tool shows exactly how melting glaciers will affect coastal cities
NASA has developed a new tool that individuals and communities can use to determine the precise impacts that sea...
Bill Gates buys a huge chunk of land in Arizona to create a ‘smart city’
Bill Gates is purchasing 25,000 acres of land in the West Valley area of Arizona, 45 minutes west of Phoenix,...
Delhi residents struggle to breathe as doctors declare air pollution health emergency
Doctors in Delhi, India's capital region, have declared a public health emergency over the densely populated, metropolitan...
NexLoop unveils water management system inspired by spiders, fungi, bees and plants
In its quest to sustainably serve the needs of urban farmers, NexLoop found inspiration for its water management...
Dunkirk, France offers free public transit to all
The small coastal city of Dunkirk in northern France is perhaps most famous, at the moment, for its portrayal in...
Tesla rapidly installs solar power at a children’s hospital in Puerto Rico
Elon Musk is a man who follows up his words with swift action. As part of its contribution to rebuilding Puerto...
Singapore is banning all new private vehicles from its roads
The government of Singapore, one of the densest countries in the world, has announced that the number of private...
Toronto’s waterfront to undergo major futuristic redesign thanks to Google’s Sidewalk Labs
In collaboration with Sidewalk Labs, a start-up created by Google to "accelerate innovation in cities around the...
China announces plans to build nearly 300 new eco-cities
China broke ground on a 40,000-tree-filled Forest City earlier this summer - but apparently one isn't enough. The...
Megacities could save $505 million a year thanks to trees
Trees offer enormous monetary benefit to megacities, or those urban areas where over 10 million people reside....
Cities rebel against Trump by posting climate data his EPA took down
Two months ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Donald Trump took down climate change...
How former NYC mayor Bloomberg is filling Trump’s climate change vacuum
President Donald Trump last week announced America would be exiting the Paris Agreement, but now it looks like...
US states and cities say they’re sticking to the Paris Accord without Trump
President Donald Trump said he was elected to represent Pittsburgh, not Paris, as he withdrew the United States...
Climate change could make cities 8C hotter by 2100, new studies show
Climate change is raising temperatures, but the impact could be worse in the world's cities. Researchers say the...
China plans an entire new city near Beijing to cut congestion
Cities typically sprawl out over time, but the Chinese government just announced they will be building a whole...
75 American mayors affirm climate goals even after Trump executive order
This week President Donald Trump signed an executive order undoing climate action regulations like the Clean Power...
Mexico City is sinking – and it’s going to cause some real problems
Mexico City, a scant mile and a half above sea level, is sinking. It's a turn of events that shouldn't surprise...
Humanity’s footprint is weighing down the planet with 30 trillion tons of junk
Everyone knows that humanity has an enormous footprint on the planet - but few of us have thought to ask just how...
Four major cities pledge to ban diesel cars by 2025
Air pollution plagues many large cities, and now four major metropolises are taking a stand. At the C40 Mayors...