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Cities: Economic and social change in U.S. cities and urban areas: Research roundup

Cities: What Is a Tree Worth? Green-City Strategies, Signaling and Housing Prices

Transportation: Road safety and motor vehicle accidents: Surveying global and U.S. data

Cities: The health effects and costs of air pollution: Research roundup

Energy: “Resource curse,” poverty and Appalachia; lessons in research, data and politics

Climate Change: Recent Land Use Change in the Western Corn Belt Threatens Grasslands and Wetlands

Energy: Toward a Green Internet

Food, Agriculture: Assessing the Impact of Training on Lowland Rice Productivity in an African Setting: Evidence from Uganda

Food, Agriculture: Red Meat Consumption and Mortality

Climate Change: Innovation in Hybrid Spaces: 2011 U.N. Climate Summit and the Expanding Journalism Landscape

Cities: Cost-effectiveness of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Battery Capacity and Charging Infrastructure Investment for Reducing U.S. Gasoline Consumption

Cities: Getting on the Right Track: Improving Low-Income and Minority Access to Mortgage Credit after the Housing Bust

Transportation: The Hard Truth About Telecommuting

Energy: Incandescent, Compact Fluorescent and LED Lamps

Food, Agriculture: Global Food Crisises, Food Insecurity and Measuring Hunger

Cities: Property Values, Parks, and Crime: A Hedonic Analysis in Baltimore, MD

Transportation: National Transportation Safety Board: Report on Curbside Motorcoach Safety

Transportation: Bus crashes in the United States: What does the research say?

Energy: Wind energy in the United States and globally: Research roundup

Cities: Price and Expenditure Elasticities for Fresh Fruit in an Urban Food Desert

Cities: Ten key issues for covering bicycling and bike infrastructure in your community

Cities: Climate change, natural disasters and community resiliency: Research roundup

Energy: Creating a Smarter U.S. Electricity Grid

Transportation: Perspectives on winter woes and risks: Research roundup

Ecology: Global Land and Water Grabbing

Food, Agriculture: The End of Farm Labor Abundance

Climate Change: State of the Climate in America: 2012-13 data and research

Transportation: U.S. residents, how they commute and what it costs: Research roundup

Cities: The Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young School-aged Children

Ecology: Global Changes in Diets and the Consequences for Land Requirements for Food

Cities: Go Where the Money Is: Modeling Street Robbers’ Location Choices

Climate Change: Fracking, shale gas and health effects: Research roundup

Climate Change: A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance

medicine: Multiple Environmental Chemical Exposures to Lead, Mercury and PCBs Among Childbearing-Aged Women

Cities: Homicide as Infectious Disease: Using Public Health Methods to Investigate the Diffusion of Homicide

Ecology: Elephants, Ivory and Trade

Cities: Retail parking lots, environmental impacts and development policies: Research roundup

Cities: Going Green Together? Brownfield Remediation and Environmental Justice

Cities: Gentrification and Low Income Neighborhoods: Entry, Exit and Enhancement

Cities: Natural disasters, Hurricane Sandy and recovery efforts in the U.S.: Research roundup

Climate Change: Comparative Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Electric Vehicles

Cities: Global Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 and Direct Impacts on Biodiversity and Carbon Pools

Cities: New views on urban communities and poverty in the U.S.: Research roundup

Climate Change: Rising temperatures, extreme weather and climate change knowledge: Research roundup

Climate Change: Perception of Climate Change: Examining Extreme Temperatures

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