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Paris wants to turn parts of itself into urban forests
Urban rewilding is a trend in the making. Now Paris is out to join in.
Plants could fight climate change by growing bigger roots
Plants and algae around the planet absorb some vast amounts of CO2 from the air each year, yet there’s a natural limit to how much they can do so as to reduce the amount of excess CO2 still in the
UK ‘burial corridors’ among greener end-of-life solutions
There’s been an intriguing call from the United Kingdom for planners to design green “burial corridors” along major roads and rights of way, to ensure that there will be room for the dearly departed in coming decades. John Ashton, an
Wanton deforestation in the Amazon is gathering steam
Last month alone forest loss in the Amazon was 88.4% higher than during the same month last year.
To combat climate change, let’s start planting trees. ASAP
Current ecosystems could support an extra 0.9 billion hectares of continuous forest.
A study finds we need to spend time regularly in nature
We need to stay in touch with the natural world, if only sporadically, for our mental and emotional wellbeing.