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October 9, 10:13 AM
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Nikos Chatzilias spends his days tending to buzzing bee colonies with a unique view out over the rooftops of Greece’s capital.
He is among the dozens of Athenians who have embraced urban beekeeping to support local ecosystems, reconnect with nature and enjoy honey flavored by each neighborhood’s local plants and flowers.
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September 9, 8:48 AM
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How do you build 1.5 million new homes in five years without destroying nature? Housing is unaffordable for most people, so the UK government plans to build as many homes as possible, as soon as possible. Assuming this brings house prices down (which isn’t a given), how can it be done without harming wildlife and worsening climate change?
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August 29, 3:39 AM
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As Spain takes a breath after yet another brutal summer heatwave, with temperatures above 40C in many parts of the country, the residents of the sherry-making town of Jerez de la Frontera have come up with a novel way to keep the streets cool.
Green canopies of grapevines festoon the town, reducing street-level temperatures by as much as 8C. “We’re planting vines in the old city because we hope that in two or three years we’ll be able to brag that this has put an end to stifling temperatures,” said Jesús Rodríguez, president of Los Emparrados, a group of residents who aim to beautify and green the city’s streets.
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July 8, 7:25 AM
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In the UK, we are unprepared at every level for the extreme weather caused by climate breakdown. Whether it’s unbearably hot buildings in the summer, our damp and cold homes (some of the leakiest in Europe) filled with mould in the winter, our unprotected towns built on flood plains, or our unfit-for-purpose train tracks that get shut down at the slightest weather warning, the climate crisis is already wreaking havoc on public and private infrastructure – and it’s only getting worse.
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May 7, 5:54 AM
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Au cours de la décennie passée, la France a enregistré quatre fois plus de jours de canicule que dans les années 1980 – un chiffre qui pourrait encore doubler d’ici 20501. Ces épisodes de forte chaleur, qui frappent de plus en plus souvent des villes autrefois caractérisées par un climat tempéré, contribuent depuis plusieurs années à attirer l’attention sur le phénomène des « îlots de chaleur ». Car, du couvert végétal limité à la minéralité du bâti, de la faible circulation du vent à la chaleur produite par les activités humaines, de nombreux facteurs se conjuguent pour faire monter les températures en ville.
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March 28, 4:18 AM
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La ville de Vienne est composée à 50% d’espaces verts. En revanche, il n’y a pas tant d’endroits alloués à la nature dans les aires densément peuplées. Partant du postulat que les espaces verts sont primordiaux pour la biodiversité et pour entretenir un climat doux, nous avons pensé qu’il en revenait aux citoyens de participer aux évolutions de leurs lieux de vie.
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March 24, 11:56 AM
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This was the third such referendum in Paris following a 2023 vote that approved a ban on e-scooters and a decision last year to triple parking charges for large SUVs.
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February 14, 7:37 AM
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Bas Smets est architecte du paysage et lauréat du concours de la Ville de Paris pour le réaménagement du parvis de Notre-Dame, suite à l'incendie de 2019. Il est au micro de Ali Baddou.
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February 11, 5:48 AM
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On the streets of Paris, thousands of trees are being planted, the city’s distinctive grey zinc rooftops are getting a makeover and workers are installing drinking fountains that release a cooling mist.
The changes are all part of the French capital’s “fight against heatwaves”, says First Deputy Mayor Patrick Bloche. “Heat, increasingly, is a problem for Paris.”
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November 25, 2024 4:30 AM
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The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
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June 14, 2024 9:15 AM
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Urban and guerrilla gardening can contribute to cooling cities while bringing people together, providing critical spaces for education and active citizenship.
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September 13, 2023 10:58 AM
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A new study suggests that greener cities not only reduce carbon emissions, they also can absorb them.
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August 4, 2023 3:11 AM
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The beginning of July marked the planet’s hottest week in recorded history, with the average global temperature reaching 17.01 degrees Celsius for the first time.
That kind of extreme heat can create major problems for cities: As urban populations switch on air conditioners and fans to keep cool, power grids can struggle to cope with the massive spikes in demand.
This week we take a closer look at that challenge and how cities are coping with it.
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October 9, 10:08 AM
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Berlin's city government will adopt a draft law proposed by a citizen initiative to plant hundreds of thousands of trees in the German capital by 2040. According to public broadcaster rbb, the city government run by the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), shelved plans to introduce its own bill for more green spaces and instead backed the draft from the citizen initiative “Baumentscheid” (tree referendum). The coalition parties said they could “not identify any need for major changes” to the citizen initiative’s draft, which will therefore be adopted “unchanged in its core parts”.
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September 9, 3:08 AM
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In recent decades, the most intense heatwaves in Estonia’s recorded history have all occurred: 2010, 2014, 2018, 2021 and 2022. While the last three summers brought shorter heatwaves to Estonia, record-breaking heat has been observed elsewhere in Europe. This year, for example, polar areas in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia exceeded 30˚C on an unprecedented number of days, while Portugal and Spain recorded over 46 °C in June.
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August 26, 11:36 AM
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In a quiet corner of Vienna’s well-to-do 18th district, Jana is explaining how her assembly of wooden decking and planters is bringing a bit of greenery to the area. “There’s not a single tree on this whole street – it’s just parking spaces on both sides.”
This is a grätzloase, or neighbourhood oasis – a miniature park tucked into the side of the road. With the blessing of the city hall, more than 100 of them have sprung up across Vienna. The scheme has been growing since 2015, and its proponents say it’s struck a rare balance for urban projects: cheap, community-driven and appreciated by local people.
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May 14, 10:40 AM
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For centuries, humans have tried to tame nature. The result: neatly trimmed parks, orderly gardens, and manicured green spaces. But a shift is underway. Across the world, a new approach to landscape design is gaining ground — one that places nature in control. This emerging design ethos champions wildness, inviting ecosystems to flourish on their own terms. Are we entering the age of rewilding?
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March 28, 8:56 AM
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En 2031, le Parc du Ruisseau des Aygalades, quartier situé dans le 15e arrondissement de la ville et sur le périmètre d’Euroméditerranée, ouvrira ses portes sur l’actuel site de la gare de marchandise du Canet. Le paysagiste Michel Desvigne, celui qui a transformé le Vieux-Port de Marseille, est désigné pour créer ce nouveau parc de 16 hectares.
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March 27, 10:37 AM
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A new study on Sweden’s largest sustainable urban development project finds that individual Nature-based solutions (NbS) have minimal impact on local climate, emphasizing the need for large-scale, interconnected green infrastructure for substantial cooling.
The research, carried out in Stockholm Royal Seaport, utilized a network of wireless sensor stations to monitor real-time temperature variations across different types of NbS: forest parks, green courtyards, rain gardens, green roofs, and lawns.
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March 11, 12:03 PM
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It's when everyone is involved from residences to businesses to policymakers that cooling strategies become more effective and really tailored to the needs of the community.
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February 11, 10:56 AM
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TRIBUNE. Parce qu’ils ont façonné notre développement urbain, les sols sont les « inconscients » de la ville, explique dans une tribune au « Monde » l’architecte-paysagiste Léna Soffer, qui appelle à végétaliser les cours d’immeubles avec des plantations adaptées à l’histoire et à la géographie du lieu.
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January 31, 5:33 AM
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Three public squares in Rome are reopening as cleaner and greener spaces, with fresh plantings of bushes and shade trees, water-permeable surfaces and reduced space for motor vehicles. The revamps are part of several infrastructure upgrades the city is implementing as it prepares to greet as many as 32 million pilgrims during Holy Year, which lasts from Christmas Eve 2024 until Epiphany (Jan. 6) 2026.
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July 25, 2024 10:02 AM
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Children living in greener neighbourhoods have better lung function, according to a new study.
The research, led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), looked at data from 35,000 children in eight different European countries - Denmark, France, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK.
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February 21, 2024 6:03 AM
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Experts advocate for the increase of green spaces in cities to restore biodiversity and bring health benefits to urban communities In a well-known sa
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September 12, 2023 4:08 AM
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Parks, trees, green roofs and gardens are what scientists call nature-based solutions to cooling overheated cities. Then there are the technical solutions, solar panels, heat pumps and other ways of cutting fossil fuel use. But even all these combined are not enough to reach the goal of net zero carbon emissions.
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