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Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China’s cities sink

Water extraction and weight of buildings see half of China’s cities sink Getty Images A building subsides and collapses in Guangxi province Nearly half of China’s major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say. Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm […]

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Globalization’s Deadly Footprint

Globalization’s Deadly Footprint That pollution is bad for our health will come as a surprise to no one. That pollution kills at least 9 million people every year might. This is 16 percent of all deaths worldwide – 3 times more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and 15 times more than all wars and […]

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Are Modern Cities Sustainable?

Are Modern Cities Sustainable? Photo by Grant252 | CC BY 2.0 Around 4 billion people, or more than 50 % of the world’s population, now live in cities. By 2050 that percentage is expected to rise to 75%, as the world population soars to 9.7 billion. Fifty of those cities will be mega cities, i.e. […]

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The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations

The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations Last week’s post covered a great deal of ground—not surprising, really, for an essay that started from a quotation from a Weird Talesstory about Conan the Barbarian—and it may be useful to recap the core argument here. Civilizations—meaning here human societies that concentrate power, wealth, and population […]

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Can we have our cities and biodiversity, too? | Ensia

Can we have our cities and biodiversity, too? | Ensia. October 23, 2014 — We are entering the most extensive and rapid phase of urban growth ever experienced. Not only are urban populations expected to double in just a few decades, physical urban space is expected to increase at an even faster pace. Estimates suggest that […]

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