Opinion / #parks
Green spaces are not the answer to overheated cities by themselves. Careful urban planning needs to consider their strategic placement.
Climate change is killing trees in cities, forcing changes in urban planning.
Infrastructure to prevent flooding in cities has benefits for preventing urban heat.
The Nobel Committee's decision to award the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was instrumental in elevating that issue to the top of the global policy agenda. Now, the same should be done to recognise the organisation that has done the most work on the crisis of biodiversity loss.
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Sustaining conservation in a pandemic
16 January 2020
Policy & Finance
Safeguarding biodiversity is not just an environmentalist issue
16 December 2019
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22 November 2018
Carbon & Climate
The bleak fate of the Amazon
12 June 2018
28 August 2017
26 May 2017
5 May 2017
15 March 2017
10 September 2013
19 June 2013
6 June 2013
Policy & Finance
Istanbul protest is — and is not — about the trees
15 May 2012
Policy & Finance
Australia's budget sends mixed message on environment
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