A public art project in Los Angeles aims to raise awareness for the immense plastic waste created on a daily basis. While landfills and recycling sites are ...
Tougher EU regulations for automakers
German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt calls for a revision of EU law and tougher EU regulations to prevent automakers violating emission limits. ...
Thawing permafrost puts arctic cities at risk
Buildings in arctic cities start to crumble because the permafrost is thawing caused by the climate change. In Norilsk, a Russian city with 177,000 ...
USA: First carbon tax ever
Washington initiative 732, originally started as a grassroot campaign, could make sure that the first ever created carbon-tax would be implemented in the ...
Habitat III – A resumé
The United Nations’ third Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) has come to an end. 30.000 representatives attended the ...
Funding methods for US parks
The benefits of urban parks for the environment and humans are well-known. How to finance the green areas however is a major challenge for many cities that ...
Northern Philippines hit by a heavy typhoon
The typhoon named “Haima” hit the Philippines on late Wednesday night. Haima hit coastal towns with winds of 225 km/h and wind gusts of up to ...
North American cities that are better off concerning climate change
Some cities in Northern America are better positioned than others when it comes to climate change effects like rought, wildfire, extreme heat, extreme ...
L.A. is fighting its garbage mess
In L.A. businesses and owners of apartment buildings pick their own waste collector which leads to first of all trucks are taking overlapping routes and ...
Sustainability science is learning from traditional knowledge
Sustainability science is increasingly drawing on traditional knowledge. Especially in the field of forest and food management there is much to learn from ...
