Cities need to get spongier to deal with devastating deluges

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View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 09.29.23 CLOUDSOURCE | 5-MINUTE READ A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations BY MAX G. LEVY Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called "sesquiterpenes." Scientists are learning more—and it's making climate models hazy. PLAINTEXT | 8-MINUTE READ Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed BY STEVEN LEVY By injecting chatbots into Meta's social platforms, Mark Zuckerberg threatens to undermine his company's original mission: to connect humans with other humans. DEALS | 3-MINUTE READ The Best National Coffee Day Deals on Espresso Machines and Coffee Beans BY JAINA GREY Over a billion people drink coffee every day, and what better way to celebrate that than with yet more coffee! CLIMATE CHANGE | 2-MINUTE READ New York Needs to Get Spongier—or Get Used to More Floods BY MATT SIMON Devastating deluges around the world point to the metropolis of tomorrow: the "sponge city." 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