This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Hulking, aging buildings pose a huge climate problem for the ...

Decades of threats have heightened security in New York City. But Monday’s attack in a Park Avenue office building shows the limits of preparedness. By Noam Scheiber At the heart of the horrific ...

Buildings account for approximately 30% of global energy consumption and 26% of global energy-related CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. In cities like Toronto, Boston, New ...

Cities looking to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings have notched a decisive court victory. Last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by plumbing and building trade groups against a New ...

In May 2020, the smart city concept appeared to have been dead and buried when Sidewalk Labs ended its collaboration with the City of Toronto to create Quayside, a data-infused, sustainability-focused ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cities looking to eliminate fossil fuels in buildings have notched a decisive court victory. Last week, a federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo by Thomas Habr on Unsplash The Empire State Building, erected in 1931, weighs 365,000 tons — a relatively modest figure by ...

Tearing down a building is a dirty job. The construction industry creates about 600 million tons of trash each year, more than twice the amount of everyday garbage that people in cities and towns ...

It took a global pandemic to convince American businesses that their employees could work productively from home, or a favorite coffee shop. Post-COVID-19, employers are struggling to find the right ...

This shift isn’t just changing lifestyles—it’s also affecting commercial spaces. Office vacancy rates post-COVID-19 shot up almost overnight, and they remain near 20% nationwide, the highest rate ...