Urban heat islands become dangerous when temperatures rise.
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Candidates for the city’s top job weigh in on environmental questions.
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Its editorial board has written that GOP nominee Donald Trump is unfit for office.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the attorney general have pledged to appeal it.
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Officials discussed investments in infrastructure, education to protect road users.
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A panel of experts could determine if “pattern of misconduct” occurred.
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More than a month after a federal judge halted a key portion of President Trump's executive order on voting, another judge has ruled that additional provisions of the order need to pause as well.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon about his country's strikes.
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The House has voted to claw back $1.1 billion in funding for public media. And, an appeals court blocked an earlier ruling ordering Trump to relinquish control of the California Guard.
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Deconstruction is a growing approach to taking down homes that diverts waste from landfills, cuts carbon emissions and creates a circular economy for construction materials.
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Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan.
Arts & Culture
- Shooting fireworks over a historic— and flammable — city takes planning
- Geologists uncover new evidence from ancient asteroid that hit the Chesapeake Bay
- Recent Hanover museum exhibit examines Brown Grove's history, legacy
- On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad