Biodiversity
Siberian Wildfires Cover Russian Cities in Smoke
Major Eastern Russian cities are shrouded in haze as a mega fires continue to burn through Siberian Taiga forests, in what is becoming an […]
Category: Cities
Aid
European Investment Bank to invest € 7.5 billion for various sectors including COVID-19
€ 3.2 billion for COVID-19 public health, elderly care and targeted business support € 1.5 billion for clean transport, including electric vehicle, high speed […]
Cities
Another Indian city, Bhubaneswar, inching closer to a groundwater crisis
Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater […]
Sustainable Business
Rejecting the Bristol Airport Expansion: A vote for nature!
Surprising as it may sound, bats and birds have just won a battle over an airport. As the world grapples with a state of […]
Sustainable Business
Water sachet use in Ghana: how to stop the pollution
Alexander Diani Kofi Preko Almost 2,500 tons of waste is generated daily in Accra. This is as a result of refuse being dumped and the environment […]
Cities
London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels
Jessica Corbett Ahead of a forum for local leaders from across the globe scheduled for March, Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York and […]
Cities
Time for an airshed approach in Delhi NCR
Polash Mukerjee Air pollution knows no political boundaries, and this severe problem in the national capital region needs a coordinated airshed approach by all […]
Cities
A global ‘toilet revolution’ is underway – but it’s polluting water and ignoring the urban poor
Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester; Purva Dewoolkar, University of Manchester, and Youcao Ren, University of Manchester It’s great that countries are backing the global […]
Cities
A slum after the storm!
How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha […]
Cities
Delhi air pollution: Environmental crisis must be seen in conjunction with politics for effective solutions
If things continue in the present manner, India will have all the top 10 slots for the most polluted cities in the world; Delhi, […]
Cities
A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing Day Zero
Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero. In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already […]
Cities
VERTICAL FARMING – PROVIDING PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO URBAN CITY CHALLENGES
Ratan Deep Some estimates state that in 50 yrs 70% of the world population will be in “cities”, around 7 billion mouths to feed […]