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For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe
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- Title
- 'Green roofs deliver for biodiversity': how Basel put nature on top
- Authors
- Ajit Niranjan
- Published
- Feb 28 2025
- Word count
- 1132 words
You can look at those yourself by looking at the aerial view of the city*. Depending on the area, there's indeed quite a number of rooftops that are green to brownish.
*Swisstopo instead of Google maps because it's better quality and publicly funded
Oh my, green roofs galore, I love it. Hope to see it spread to US cities like mine...