MIT Professor Carlo Ratti, director of the school’s Senseable City Lab, has been studying and designing smart city technologies for years. In an ...
Adapting to climate change will cost 500 billion USD by 2050
According to a report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), adapting to climate change effects will cost more than initially expected. ...
Hamburg wird zur Smart City
Lastwagen kommunizieren mit Ampeln, Sensoren steuern den Verkehrsfluss – bereits seit zwei Jahren testet die Stadt Hamburg verschiedene Smart City- ...
Semarang launches Asia’s first city resilience strategy
The city of Semarang, Indonesia, has released Asia’s first city resilience strategy. The strategy document identifies the six biggest challenges of ...
Big oil companies go green
Big oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Shell and Total have currently expanded their investments in renewables and clean energy. But it might be too late ...
Urbanization presents opportunity to lower emissions
Although urban areas might not be viewed as enviromentally friendly places, per capita carbon emissions in cities are normally lower than average in ...
Drones could deliver medicines to remote areas
Various companies, including the UPS Foundation, have teamed up to discover the use of drones in transporting critical medicines to remote areas around ...
Santiago’s subway system to be powered by wind and solar
The subway system of the city of Santiago, Chile’s capital, will become the world’s first to be powered mostly by renewable energy sources. ...
Droughts and conflicts leave 80 million in food crisis
According to new report, 80 million people around the world are suffering from a food crisis due to armed conflicts and severe droughts caused by the El ...
How Big Data is changing healthcare
As no other sector relies more on data analysis than healthcare, the potential of Big Data is enormous. Thus, technology could revolutionize all steps of ...
