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Belfast's Resilience Strategy outlines the risk of conflict as a potential threat to climate resilience. It argues that cross-community collaboration and cohesion will be necessary to weather increasingly volatile storms and enable the govenrment to…

Government spending for agriculture in the U.S. is incredibly high, as the farming system the country currently runs on is based on large monocrop systems that grow commodity crops dependent on huge government subsidies. These maps display the…

In order to combat climate change, it is imperative to replace individual automobile and air travel with mass transportation. The US Inter-City Rail system is lacking serious connections. Bus systems and routes can be useful in locations that are…

Although Manhattan has a higher population density and less open space compared to the Bronx, it has fewer heat islands. This insinuates that factors other than open space are responsible for these temperature differences; perhaps extra amenities are…

The Pacific Crest Trail or PCT is a 2,650 mile thru hiking trail that spans from the Mexican California border through the Washington Canada border. The trail runs through 26 national forests, seven national parks, five state parks and three national…

To assess how well each variable served as a predictor for housing prices, a a series of generalized linear regressions were run. The values shown are standard deviations of the residual--the difference between the value predicted by the variable in…

Invasive species are organisms that are not native to the ecosystem in which they inhabit. These species are often harmful to the environment, using up resources with no natural methods of regulation. Invasive species are a well established presence…

Housing in London is becoming increasingly unaffordable and hard to find. Before the 21st Century, much of Britain's early municipal housing was constructed by the government. Council housing stock in London peaked in the 1970s, and rapidly began…