One World – One Environment – One Network
A group of scientists has shown that for plants and insects the applied pesticide toxicity in agriculture has substantially increased between 2004 and 2016. In a paper published in the current issue of Science,...
Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study. The results are reported in the journal Nature Geoscience. An international team studied the...
A new ETH study confirms that changing climate conditions could reduce carbon absorption. In warmer and wetter areas, carbon stored in the soil is released back into the atmosphere more quickly. Plants and soil...
Most of the mangrove forests on the coasts of Oman disappeared about 6,000 years ago. Until now, the reason for this was not entirely clear. A current study of the University of Bonn now...
The city of Barcelona has announced a 10-year plan to reduce car traffic and pollution by expanding its successful superblock model to the city center. Barcelona’s superblocks are a model of healthier, safer and...
Google announced that it will help more than 500 cities and local governments reduce 1 gigaton of carbon emissions per year by 2030. Tech giant Google has made a bold urban promise as part...
A Green New Deal could reinvigorate Southeast Asia’s economy after the coronavirus pandemic recedes while preparing the region for the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, argued trade expert James Guild recently in the...
Almost 90 percent Nestlé’s food and beverage packaging, including two-thirds of its plastic packaging, is recyclable or reusable. Now the Swiss multinational is hoping to increase those numbers. “We have made strides in our...
Migrating geese do it. Why not commercial aircraft? That’s the logic behind European aerospace giant Airbus’s research into how its airliners could save energy by flying behind other planes. Known as wake-energy retrieval, or...
Barcelona-based Guallart Architects has won a contest to design a resilient and self-sufficient community in Xiong’an, a new city that Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling “a new standard in the post-COVID era”. According...
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority is now using artificial intelligence and machine learning to plan bus routes based on actual usage. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that it has started experimenting with...
A former railway yard on Ligosvky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, Russia, will be transformed into a new residential district with communal facilities, retail and extensive green spaces inspired by the site’s industrial past. Dutch...
An international design competition to reimagine how the iconic Brooklyn Bridge could be made more accessible, safer and sustainable for pedestrians and cyclists has announced the finalists. Some of the biggest names in the...
The European Investment Bank is providing €95 million to Barcelona to promote urban regeneration through investments in urban design, social infrastructure and energy efficiency. The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that it will...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are trialing a mobile sensing platform in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Tianjin that places sensors on taxis. Their goal is to improve smart urban services by encouraging...
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have developed self-pre-stressed concrete elements. Their innovation makes it possible to build leaner structures that use less material. A team of scientists...
The City of Vancouver has approved a rezoning application, paving the way for construction of the tallest Passive House building in the world. The 60-storey mixed-use residential building will be 178 meters high. Vancouver...
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has teamed up with industry partners to launch the Building System Carbon Framework. Its aim is to help align company actions towards a net-zero built environment. The...
A Swiss company is on its way to becoming the first company in the world to use a procedure to change mixed plastic waste into paraffin oil in a CO2-neutral way. This can also...
