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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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#1249122020-03-30
Utrecht rooftops to be ‘greened’ with plants and mosses in new plan
Every roof in the city district of Utrecht is to be “greened” with plants and mosses or have solar panels installed under plans driven by the success of a similar scheme for the municipality’s bus stops.
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#1248262020-03-25
As coronavirus forces lockdowns, parks lift spirits in cities
As the coronavirus outbreak shutters gyms, malls and swimming pools, residents from Los Angeles to Bangkok are heading to parks and open spaces during lockdowns, highlighting their vital role in protecting health and wellbeing, urban experts said.
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#1248642020-03-25
Big brains or many babies: How birds can thrive in urban environments
A new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution suggests that birds have two alternative strategies for coping with the difficulties of humanity's increasingly chaotic cities - either by having large brains or through more frequent breeding.
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#1247102020-03-17
Green Walls bridge gap between urban cities and nature
There is now a simple and easy way to remove pollution from the air, promote biodiversity and naturally control the temperature in your home – and it’s all thanks to a new community-focused resource designed to help urban dwellers go green.
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#1246612020-03-13
Accidental countryside: why nature thrives in unlikely places
With its trees still naked after winter, Lordship Road in the London borough of Hackney is an urban vista of asphalt, brick and concrete. Heading north, a pair of tower blocks loom from the horizon.
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#1244982020-03-03
Are cities Europe's new biodiversity hotspots?
While rummaging through part of Amsterdam's city park, citizen scientists discovered new insect species. Their aim was to show that even in Earth's busiest places, biodiversity is still underexplored.
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#1243752020-02-26
Urbanisation and climate change sting bees. What can cities do for them?
“Everyone wants honey. But no one wants the bees near them,” says 34-year-old Pune city resident Amit Godse of Bee Basket, who runs a business extricating beehives from neighborhoods that don’t like them. Godse then relocates the beehives to wooded areas or farmlands bordering the city or sends ...
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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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#1242672020-02-20
The rising tide of city resilience
Remember those 100 resilient cities? We used to hear a lot about them. Turns out, they didn’t go away. Quite the contrary. Enter the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN). Announced last week at the United Nations Habitat Urban World Forum, the city-led initiative is the evolution and expansion ...
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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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#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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#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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#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. ...
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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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#1236902020-01-13
This massive new rooftop farm helps keep Bangkok from flooding
Sea levels are rising around the world, but as they rise, Bangkok is sinking. The low-lying megacity, built on marshland, is also now so covered in concrete that during heavy rains—the type of storms that are becoming more common because of climate change—streets can quickly flood.
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#1235742020-01-06
Greener, healthier, more sustainable: why cities of the future need more biodiversity
Modern science has proven environmental factors heavily influence human health – which is why each and every one of us would benefit from an intact ecosphere with good quality air, water and produce. In fact, by changing the conditions in which we live, we might be able to improve our health and ...
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#1233342019-12-09
The suburbs can help cities in the fight against climate change
The edges of cities around the world are being devastated by fires and floods. It’s drawing attention to suburban residents and the role they’re playing in exacerbating their exposure to climate change risks. But instead of focusing on the suburban way of life alone, planners and policy-makers n ...
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#1233442019-12-09
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity - a global overview
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill’s Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They publishe ...
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#1233452019-12-09
The species the world lost this decade
The Rabbs’ fringe-limbed treefrog was unlike any other species on planet Earth. Inhabiting only the forests of Panama, the frog had enormously charismatic brown eyes, and feet so oversized they looked cartoonish. But what made the frog truly special was the way it looked after its tadpoles.
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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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#1231622019-11-28
How cities can lead the fight against climate change using urban forestry and trees (commentary)
After the United States pulled out of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, combating climate change at local scales in the U.S. has become increasingly important to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction goals.
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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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#1230722019-11-20
Banking on nature: a Mexican city adapts to climate change
The Mexican city of Xalapa is surrounded by ecosystems that not only harbor stunning flora and fauna, but also provide crucial services to the city and its 580,000 people.
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#1230132019-11-15
Smart urban food systems: What will the future taste like?
Some believe John Lennon’s ashes were scattered at Strawberry Fields in Central Park, New York City. After a recent goosebump-inducing sing-along of Áll You Need is Love at the supposed spot, I was much closer to being one of them.
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#1226482019-10-15
Accra wins award for Informal Waste Collection Expansion project
Ghana’s capital city, Accra, has been mentioned among the 2019 ‘World's Seven Best Climate Projects’ for its Informal Waste Collection Expansion project. The recognition puts Accra among this year’s seven short-listed cities of the ‘C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards.’
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#1226492019-10-15
Green roofs can vastly improve city life, so why don’t we see more of them?
Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits which include savings on energy costs, mitigating the ri ...
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#1226502019-10-15
Fall leaves on your lawn can improve soil, biodiversity and environment: experts
Leaves changing colour in the fall is a beautiful sign of transitioning seasons, but as they fall and gather on our lawns raking them up can be a daunting task for home owners. Lucky for those hoping to avoid tedious yard work, experts suggest leaving the rake in the shed and leaves on the ground.
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#1226342019-10-11
'We are not alone' in fighting climate change, says Freetown mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Over 90 mayors of the world's biggest cities have signed a Global Green New Deal in Copenhagen this week.
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#1226162019-10-10
Cities can fight climate change and improve lives by finding new ways to be cool
Life has always been hotter in cities.
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#1225562019-10-07
Green roofs improve the urban environment – so why don't all buildings have them?
Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits which include savings on energy costs, mitigating the ri ...
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#1225262019-10-04
Hazards mapping, history and the future of Rust Belt cities
Using geographic information systems (GIS) and archaeology to model industrial hazards in postindustrial cities to guide planning and development.
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#1225192019-10-03
20+ Cities Call for Integrating Climate, Biodiversity Concerns into Urban Planning
More than 20 cities, including Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Dakar (Senegal), Helsinki (Finland), Paris (France), La Paz (Bolivia), Melaka (Malaysia) and São Paulo (Brazil), have endorsed a statement on urban development that integrates environmental considerations, including low-emission targets, lo ...
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#1223522019-09-24
The Circular Economy Makes Way For The Circular City
Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, that number is expected to increase to two-thirds. More people living in condensed areas means higher amounts of waste, higher resource consumption and higher energy use. As the world’s cities already emit over 70% of carbon emissio ...
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#1222982019-09-20
Cities are driving evolution at a rapid rate
In Montreal, red-backed salamanders sequestered in parks possess different genetic traits than those outside of the parks. In Tucson, house finches are developing longer and wider beaks to eat sunflower seeds from bird feeders, which are larger and harder to break than those found in nature.
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#1221432019-09-09
Civil Society Urges Inclusive, Resilient & Sustainable Urban Areas of the Future
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, USA, Sep 9 2019 (IPS) - The United Nations held its first major international conference in one of America’s mountain states, bringing scores of civil society organizations (CSOs) to discuss ways on making “cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustain ...
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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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#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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#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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#1218782019-08-13
A model city in Japan is helping Asian cities go green
Without dissolved oxygen, fish cannot survive. Healthy water normally contains between 7-8 mg/l of the gas.
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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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#1217742019-08-01
Air pollution-eating moss cleans hotspots in Europe
When 26-year-old Peter Sänger and 34-year-old Liang Wu got together, they realized right away that they had something in common.
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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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#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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#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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#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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#1215102019-07-09
This Dutch City Has Transformed Its Bus Stops Into Bee Stops
In the Dutch city Utrecht 316 bus stops now have a green roof. They do not only look great, they also help capture fine dust, storage of rainwater and provide cooling in the summertime.
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#1215032019-07-08
The Surprising Ways Big Cities Are Good For The Environment
How urban living can cap population growth and help conserve natural resources.
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#1214662019-07-03
UN and civil society team up to make cities more sustainable and inclusive
How can we make sure that cities become more inclusive, with a smaller environmental footprint, and leave no-one behind? These questions will be tackled at the UN Civil Society Conference, which is due to take place in the capital of Utah, Salt Lake City, at the end of August.
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#1213092019-06-14
Allison Hanes: Montreal conference puts a new perspective on parks
Montreal’s parks are a source of pride for this dense, urban metropolis.