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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#1282012021-04-22
Singapore leads green architecture and sustainable building design in Asia - here's why
Kermit the Frog once lamented that it wasn't easy being green. Large-scale developers who for years have been trying to reconcile their economic and environmental concerns would agree.
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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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#1326142022-01-19
Snakes in Bengaluru city
“Sun’s out, snakes out!” exclaimed Shuayb Ahmed, and Yatin Kalki as they jumped to action. Ahmed, an independent snake rescuer, had received a frantic call from a woman who spotted a snake – claimed to be a juvenile spectacled cobra – in her house in Bengaluru.
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#1251852020-04-21
Social distance, sustainable cities and building public health capacity
The spread of the coronavirus and the need for social distance is seen by some as a fundamental challenge to globalism, population density, and urban life. The virus is both a challenge and a catastrophe, but it does not change the basic appeal and benefit of our way of life.
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#1262782020-12-16
South Africa: Veld Circles Are Creating Custodians of Cape Town's Biodiversity
Dr Caitlin von Witt's message is clear: 'If you want to support the most biodiversity, you should support local biodiversity.' Through the FundaFynbos project, she is educating Capetonians about indigenous plants and encouraging them to plant them at home.
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#1211822019-05-23
St-Laurent to establish Quebec's first urban biodiversity corridor
The borough of St-Laurent is setting up the first urban biodiversity corridor in Quebec to combat hot spots.
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#1186102018-10-22
Stefano Boeri Fights Climate Change With Vertical Forest, Liuzhou Forest City In China
Italian architect Stefano Boeri aims to combat climate change by building forests in the city. From the first Vertical Forest in Asia in Nanjing, China, to another Forest City in Liuzhou, the designer is planning to turn the country from the world's biggest polluter to an eco-friendly place.
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#1190232018-12-13
The Allure of Vertical Forests
The Vertical Forest buildings of the architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri make the most of the often overlooked and profound contributions of a single tree.
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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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#1322682021-12-22
The Critical Need for Smart Agriculture for Truly Smarter Cities
Smart cities are developing all over the world, marketing themselves as helping us innovate and become more technologically advanced as a mostly-urban species.
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#1319162021-11-24
The Guardian view on urban rewilding: when nature takes over
The news that Derby has approved what promises to be Britain’s largest urban rewilding project so far is very welcome. The 320-acre Allestree Park will, subject to detailed consultation, be given over to a range of habitats and perhaps even see the reintroduction of species such as dormice and r ...
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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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#1300422021-08-19
The US city that has raised $100m to climate-proof its buildings
When Fred Schoeps bought a 150-year-old building in downtown Ithaca, New York, a decade ago, he was one of only a handful of building owners dedicated to ending their reliance on fossil fuels and reducing their carbon footprint.
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#1199942019-02-18
The battle against bugs: it's time to end chemical warfare
Insects are important wildlife often overlooked in urban habitats. What we do notice are the cockroaches, ants and mosquitoes in and around our homes. All too often we reach for the insect spray.
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#1311102021-10-25
The belly of the beast
Environmentalism is often experienced as a desire to return to rural nature: from the pastoral sunlit uplands to the ancient forest. Yet more than half of the world human population lives in cities today.
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#1197592019-02-04
The case of the missing hibiscus
As exotic plants and trees multiply, vital indigenous species are being pushed out of city spaces.The kanaka champa (bayur) tree at the corner of the busy IT corridor in Chennai gave way to flowing traffic some years ago.
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#1206322019-04-04
The city of the future is regenerative, circular and place-focused
Smart cities, liveable cities, green cities, biophilic cities, eco-cities and regenerative cities. Add to this, eco-villages, intentional communities, transition towns and place-making and it seems everyone is talking about the cities of the future. Yet in all this conversation there is little o ...