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#1194622019-01-17
Save bees and butterflies to save urban life
Pollinators such as bees, hoverflies and butterflies, are responsible for the reproduction of many flowering plants and help to produce more than three quarters of the world’s crop species. Globally, the value of the services provided by pollinators is estimated at between $235 billion and $577 ...
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#1321722021-12-14
Sadiq Khan leads ambitious plans to rewild Hyde Park
London mayor releases £600,000 funding to help create green rooftops and reintroduce lost species
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#1220252019-08-27
Sacred sites in Bengaluru: Where heritage helps conserve biodiversity
In India’s IT capital Bengaluru, sprinkled within its concrete jungle, are shady peepal trees adorned with serpent stones, bells and sacred threads, standing majestically atop gated raised platforms.
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#1216082019-07-17
Rwanda Prepares the Foundations for Climate-Resilient Cities
KIGALI, Jul 15 2019 (IPS) - How do you plan a resilient city? A city that can withstand climate change impacts, and the natural disasters that it produces at increased frequencies.
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#1278922021-04-05
Rewilding our cities: beauty, biodiversity and the biophilic cities movement
Our cities are dominated by glass-faced edifices that overheat like greenhouses then guzzle energy to cool down. Instead, we could have buildings that are intimately connected to the living systems that have evolved with us, that celebrate the human-nature connection that is central to our wellb ...
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#1205252019-03-27
Rewilding cities will improve public health
Growing more native plants in cities will increase microbial diversity and combat the rise of non-communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease, South Australian researchers say.
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#1232712019-12-04
Rewilding London’s urban spaces
Rewilding is an approach to conservation that lets nature return areas of land to a wild state. The process involves allowing ecosystems to restore themselves over time, so they can recover from degradation.
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#1216292019-07-18
Researchers take stock of how Canada's urban forests protect our health
Montreal's urban forest has a big impact on human health, and yet researchers are just starting to count the trees, and the benefits.
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#1238242020-01-21
Rapid urbanization is driving biodiversity decline
Humanity is currently experiencing an unprecedented era of urban growth. By 2030, more than 1.2 billion additional people are expected to live in cities, equivalent to building a city the size of New York every six weeks.
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#1240582020-02-03
Protection of urban wetlands crucial
Environment Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu last week gave a chilling warning: all wetlands in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities will disappear within 20 years if municipalities continued on their current model of development.
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#1297272021-07-27
Prague: The circular European capital you haven’t heard about yet
Lying at the heart of Europe is a city otherwise known as the City of a Hundred Spires, renowned for its abundance of gothic architecture and UNESCO world heritage stamp. But one thing you may not know about the Czech capital of Prague is that it has fast become a trailblazer in establishing a l ...
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#1243762020-02-26
People and nature in an urban world
Humanity is facing an existential contradiction: we are building an urban future for ourselves, yet urbanisation in its current form is threatening the very future of humanity and the natural world. Urban growth is a seemingly unstoppable worldwide process.
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#1323722022-01-07
Penny wise and pound foolish? NYC budget needs to consider the interconnectedness of the city's infrastructure
It has been four months since rain from Hurricane Ida flooded the streets and homes of New York. The subway stations and basements in all boroughs that were flash flooded made the news for a couple of weeks, but may soon be forgotten.
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#1260432020-12-07
Paris halves street parking and asks residents what they want to do with the space
Paris is set to remove half of its 140,000 on-street car parking spaces as it seeks to make the city greener and more people friendly.
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#1202702019-03-07
One million urban trees
Now that the one millionth tree has been planted by Greening the West in Melbourne’s western suburbs, there are one million more ways for urbanites to connect with nature.
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#1217322019-07-29
New study will use bike sensors to see how much trees cool our cities
A Concordia University researcher will mount sensors onto a fleet of bikes to detect just how much trees are cooling down streets and urban spaces.
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#1319172021-11-24
New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods
Thousands of acres of undersea reefs once protected the city’s shoreline. Now an army of volunteers is bringing the bivalves back, one shell at a time.
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#1320512021-12-03
New York City Becomes 200th City to Join Global CitiesWithNature Initiative
New York City has become the 200th city to join CitiesWithNature, a global partnership initiative that strengthens collective action and impact to protect biodiversity and reconnect urban communities with nature. New York is taking up this leading position alongside London, Los Angeles, São Paul ...
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#1249442020-03-31
Nature takes back world's empty city streets
As humans retreat into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of our biggest cities.
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#1252932020-04-28
Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart
There was literally a frog orgy in that one. There is no other way to describe it,” says Jules Waite, from the London Wildlife Trust, pointing at a pond in the Barbican wildlife garden, one of the few areas of London’s Square Mile whose inhabitants are not in lockdown.
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#1310792021-10-22
Natural habitats of 30 cities around the world at risk due to ‘coastal hardening’, study suggests
Artificial structures have replaced more than half of the coastline of 30 cities around the world, according to new research suggesting coastal infrastructure will have a significant ecological impact if not well managed.
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#1250192020-04-08
Museum to launch national programme to protect urban nature as it announces plans to transform five-acre London gardens into the nation’s urban nature ‘epicentre’
Leading a coalition of museums and wildlife organisations, the Natural History Museum’s Urban Nature Project will not only transform its London gardens into a biodiversity hub, but critically it will create an urban nature movement through a UK-wide learning programme for young people, families ...
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#1191782018-12-21
More young and other traits help mammals adapt to urban environments
Species of mammals that live in urban environments produce more young compared to other mammals. But along with this advantage, mammals have other strategies to successfully inhabit cities. This is what Radboud University ecologist Luca Santini and colleagues found in a study that they will publ ...
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#1268002021-02-01
More oxygen, cleaner air for Chennai as civic body plans to set up 1,000 urban forests
The residents of Chennai will now breathe in cleaner air as the municipal corporation is mulling the setting up of 1,000 urban forests. The Greater Chennai Corporation commissioner G Prakash said that the government will set up more forests in vacant places across the city.
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#1189662018-12-11
Montreal to deploy scare teams to shoo away urban coyotes
The team will also train people how to react when they see a coyote, screaming and waving so the animals don’t get comfortable in the company of humans.
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#1218552019-08-09
Montreal plans to create the biggest urban park in the country
The City of Montreal wants to create the largest urban park in Canada on the West Island.
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#1219452019-08-19
Mobile forests could help cities cope with climate change
Cities across Europe are trialling schemes such as roof gardens and ‘mobile forests’ to embed more nature into urban areas in an effort to protect their citizens from climate change events like heatwaves, floods and droughts.
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#1325662022-01-17
Message to mayors: cities need nature
My home town of New Delhi is battling with air pollution, contaminated water supplies and heatwaves. Just last November, schools were shut for more than a week because of untenable air quality.
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#1320442021-12-03
Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)
A Long Island couple says fighting climate change and protecting biodiversity starts at home. Or rather, right outside their suburban house.
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#1255152020-11-03
McGill College Avenue revitalization set to include more leisure space for students
After a year-long competition, the city of Montreal unveiled the winning design for the transformation of McGill College on Oct. 15. The City of Montreal announced that Et Sillon, which was pitched by Civiliti, Mandaworks, and SNC Lavalin, was chosen for the upcoming pedestrianization and renova ...
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#1231192019-11-26
Mangroves Help Fight The Effects Of Climate Change. So Why Is Mumbai Destroying Them?
Bare trees with slender branches line a half-built highway overpass in eastern Mumbai.
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#1285822021-05-12
Malmö, Sweden: A testing ground for integrated sustainable solutions
The former industrial shipyard Western Harbour boasts a heavy concentration of green roofs and a heat pump plant that provides residents with heating and cooling. The neighbourhood of Augustenborg is known for its focus on climate adaptation and social and green regeneration initiatives.
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#1216492019-07-22
London becomes world's first ‘National Park City.’ What does that mean?
The UK capital is the the first city to sign on to a new drive to convince cities and their residents to be greener, healthier, and wilder.
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#1319692021-11-29
Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30%
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research.
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#1201662019-03-01
Living Product Challenge: Design for the Future
Sustainable design in the construction industry has become mainstream, and the use of green materials not only lowers the environmental impact over their entire lifetime, but also provides a normal level of comfort, durability and functionality for occupants. In business situations, this allows ...
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#1201232019-02-26
Koalas can learn to live the city life if we give them the trees and safe spaces they need
Australia is one of the world's most highly urbanised nations – 90% of Australians live in cities and towns, with development concentrated along the coast. This poses a major threat to native wildlife such as the koala, which can easily fall victim to urban development as our cities grow. Huge i ...
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#1325672022-01-17
Kazakh people are fighting to preserve the natural lakes of Nur‑Sultan
For two years now, residents and experts have been fighting to preserve the Taldykol natural lakes system in the new city centre of Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, that city authorities are filling up to build urban housing estates.
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#1294642021-07-07
It takes more than words and ambition: here’s why your city isn’t a lush, green oasis yet
The idea of transforming cities from concrete jungles to urban forests is a popular one, and there have been some truly inspiring, exemplar projects in recent years. The transformation of a Seoul freeway to Cheonggyecheon parkland, exposing the historical river that once flowed there, is one cel ...
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#1310762021-10-22
Is the boom in green roofs and living walls good for sustainability?
With living walls on skyscrapers and offices sprouting rooftop forests, green buildings have never been so popular. Will Ing examines whether this is the future of sustainable design or just PR greenwash
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#1240602020-02-03
In this new Dutch neighborhood, there will be 1 shared car for every 3 households
Welcome to Merwede, a new proposed neighborhood in Utrecht being designed specifically to enhance Dutch biking culture.
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#1240902020-02-05
In the fight against climate change, cities need not be hotbeds of environmental degradation
We are in the age of urbanisation. For the first time in human history, over half the world’s population now lives in cities; within a generation, urban areas will be the dominant drivers of global consumer demand and natural resource use.
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#1321542021-12-13
In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation
Concerned about the environmental impacts of the paving of the highway that crosses the region, residents of a city on the agricultural frontier pressured the city hall to create an integral conservation unit 45% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land.
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#1221342019-09-06
Hundreds of wild parrots are thriving in this Brazilian city
Decades ago, blue-and-gold macaws fleeing drought and wildfire landed in Campo Grande—and now locals love them.
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#1290962021-06-07
How to reimagine our cities as hubs for biodiversity, conservation and climate resilience
Biodiversity – all living organisms, including plants, animals and microorganisms – is essential for human existence. Yet when we think about biodiversity, we rarely picture a city in our minds. Nature has often been associated as purely a feature of rural landscapes, when in fact urban areas ar ...
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#1249432020-03-31
How to increase biodiversity across cities
Cities and their surrounding areas are expanding. And this dramatically affects ecosystems. Urban areas are often perceived to have lower biodiversity than the countryside, but some recent studies suggest that urban land can support pollinator populations.
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#1251372020-04-17
How to green our cities without putting communities at risk of bushfire
The pursuit of greener urban areas in NSW will bring us resilience to climate change and increased liveability but if we’re not careful, urban greening policies could be the kindling for future bushfire events that destroy lives and property.
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#1305732021-09-29
How to address Asia Pacific’s biodiversity crisis and encourage nature-positive growth
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report on global warming reaffirms that accelerated efforts to fight the climate emergency are vital. We must leverage this momentum to address the intertwined crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. This threa ...
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#1205242019-03-27
How light from street lamps and trees influence the activity of urban bats
Artificial light is rightly considered a major social, cultural and economic achievement. Yet, artificial light at night is also said to pose a threat to biodiversity, especially affecting nocturnal species in metropolitan areas.
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#1339052022-03-31
How investing in green infrastructure helps cities manage the effects of the climate crisis and creates healthy communities
Setting ordinances to build more green roofs, planting trees and native plants, and designing community green spaces are just a few ways that many cities are investing in green infrastructure to solve climate-related problems and promote the health of residents.
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#1239152020-01-23
How design of our cities is amplifying urban heat and what to do with it
Most of the time we discuss climate change as affecting cities and the people who live in them. Less well known is that cities – specifically their planning and design – also create climate change through the urban heat island. Encouragingly, this means that cities can provide climate solutions. ...