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#1186072018-10-19
What does a sustainable city mean to Singapore’s youth?
Preserving local heritage and being in touch with nature is essential to living in a sustainable city, said students at a recent youth event in Singapore.
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#1714SBSTTA 14
2010-05-12
What is happening to biodiversity in Africa's protected Areas?
The status and trends of biodiversity (with emphasis on bird species) following the 'Pressure- State- Response' monitoring framework was measured within protected areas in 13 African countries. The results of the baseline and monitoring studies will be presented during a workshop and panel discu ...
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#1276002021-03-08
What urban nature really means for insect biodiversity
Parks and green spaces in cities provide health and wellness benefits to human inhabitants, but they’re not necessarily beneficial for other urban dwellers – like insects. Researchers are investigating urban biodiversity with approaches such as ‘bee hotels’ to see how cities can better foster in ...
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#1324522022-01-12
Why are San Jose's trees disappearing? City loses hundreds of acres each year
San Jose's trees are slowly vanishing. Despite boasting, the nation's 10th largest city is in the midst of an environmental crisis as the tree canopy that shades it has dwindled by 1.82% between 2012 and 2018.
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#1209292019-05-03
Why nightingales love scruffy Berlin
Berlin attracts more nightingales than almost any other European city. Although it's not an urban species, the little bird with the big voice seems to thrive in Germany's hectic capital.
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#1293562021-06-16
Why seagulls are making their homes in our cities
Their cries are most commonly associated with the seaside, but as their natural homes come under threat, will gulls increasingly move inland to take up residence in our cities?
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#1329902022-02-08
Why the Dutch embrace floating homes
Faced with worsening floods and a shortage of housing, the Netherlands is seeing growing interest in floating homes. These floating communities are inspiring more ambitious Dutch-led projects in flood-prone nations, from French Polynesia to the Maldives.
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#1207502019-04-12
Why the UAE's mangroves are so important — and how to save them
Mangroves are estimated to cover more than 150 square kilometres of the UAE's coastline, acting as a "green lung" for big cities such as Abu Dhabi and Dubai, while also providing habit for wildlife and recreation grounds for humans. Most of us would see mangroves as a beautiful element of our la ...
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#1297492021-07-28
Why we should build for wildlife as well as people
Every time we build something, another patch of ground that could have been a home to wildlife disappears. But Dusty Gedge argues that, in many cases, we can return that patch of ground to nature – up on the roof.
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#1286142021-05-14
Wild boar surround woman near Rome and steal food shopping
A herd of wild boar surrounded a woman who had just come out of a supermarket near Rome and stole her shopping, rekindling a debate about the presence of the animal in Italian towns and cities.
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#1253372020-04-30
Wildlife through the window: what readers have spotted during lockdown
We asked Guardian readers living in cities and towns across the world to share their images of the wildlife they can see from their homes. You answered in your droves, from Canada to Cardiff, and here are some of the best.
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#6090World Cities Day
31 October 2021, New York, United States of America
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#6232World Cities Day
31 October 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
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#6303World Cities Day
31 October 2023, New York, United States of America
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#6464World Cities Day
31 October 2024, New York, United States of America
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#5677World Cities Day 2017
31 October 2017, New York, United States of America
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#5799World Cities Day 2018 (http://www.un.org/en/events/citiesday/)
31 October 2018, New York, United States of America
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#5866World Cities Day 2019
31 October 2019, New York, United States of America
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#5987World Cities Day 2020
31 October 2020, New York, United States of America
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#4998World Cities Summit 2012: Liveable and Sustainable Cities - Integrated Urban Solutions
1 - 4 July 2012, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
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#5264World Cities Summit 2014: Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Common Challenges, Shared Solutions
1 - 4 June 2014, Singapore, Singapore
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#5796World Habitat Day 2018
2 October 2018, Nairobi, Kenya
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#5861World Habitat Day 2019
7 October 2019, Nairobi, Kenya
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#5983World Habitat Day 2020
5 October 2020, Nairobi, Kenya
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#3091World Life Sciences Forum BioVision 2009
8 - 11 March 2009, Lyon, France
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#6229World Tourism Day
27 September 2022, Madrid, Spain
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#5982World Tourism Day 2020
27 September 2020, New York, United States of America
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#6068News Headlines
#1274882021-03-03
‘It's radical’: the Ugandan city built on solar, shea butter and people power
The village of Okere Mom-Kok was in ruins by the end of more than a decade of war in northern Uganda.Now, just outside Ojok Okello’s living-room door, final-year pupils at the early childhood centre are noisily breaking for recess and a market is clattering into life, as is the local craft brewe ...