Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalisations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from villages near India’s Kaziranga National Park.
The amount of forest lost around the world has reduced by millions of hectares each year in recent decades, but countries are still off track to meet “important” deforestation targets.
Against a backdrop of global uncertainty and questions about whether multilateral processes can still deliver, the countries represented at the latest UN Ocean Conference were largely united on the need for a more ambitious response to the challenges facing our ocean. Here is what needs to happen now.
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Green spaces are not the answer to overheated cities by themselves. Careful urban planning needs to consider their strategic placement.
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Not far from its rival Apple, the Korean electronics heavyweight is poised to expand its market reach and sustainability credentials with green spaces that foster employee interaction and innovation.
Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.