Commentary: prepare to say a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees
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Finns trying to enjoy beaches and parks during their all-too-brief summers have been vexed by legions of geese and their droppings – the smelly mess has resisted even the most innovative solutions
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Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and sponge parks
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Lost gardens of New York City
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Bergen in Norway has been building one of the world's most advanced trash systems, using vacuum tubes to whisk waste away
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How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter
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Denmark's largest energy community is now under construction, featuring more than 30,000 sqm of solar rooftops with a total capacity of about 4 MW
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By pairing computer processing facilities with district heating systems, countries like Finland and Sweden are trying to limit their environmental downsides
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Living among volcanoes is nothing new in Iceland – but as a new eruptive era begins, the Reykjavík region is honing defenses and rethinking development
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Huge power cut causes chaos in Spain and Portugal as Madrid mayor warns people to stay put
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Norway's capital is known for its green policies and widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Why does the city still struggle with air pollution?
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Gothenburg fined for missing an environmental target – was one of the first local governments in the world to take out a "sustainability linked loan"
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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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Carved into rock beneath the Swedish city of Västerås, a huge man-made cave system is being used to heat local housing
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Fog harvesting could provide water for the driest cities
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Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction – drop in decibels is welcome side-effect of goal to keep city-managed construction projects free from toxic emissions
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Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high
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Fears over looming water shutdown in Johannesburg South Africa
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'Our plan worked': How Vienna prepared itself for a 5,000-year flood
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How cities run dry
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Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital outside Cairo
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Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year
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How to get the most out of urban gardens
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Ecuador river is granted the right to not be polluted in historic court case
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Turning brownfields to blooming meadows, with the help of fungi
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Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital
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Mexico City and Bogotá stare down a ‘Day Zero’ without water
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Texas' skyscrapers are going dark to keep billions of birds safe
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San Francisco city leaders look to bring back emergency sirens by end of 2024
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Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water
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New report shows that a crowded historic neighborhood suffered disproportionate casualties in Lahaina Hawaii fire
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Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins
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Copenhagen is moving away from concrete and asphalt and towards softer, “spongier” settlements that work with the natural flow of the water cycle
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Stockholm has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre, in an effort to slash pollution and reduce noise
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Melbourne plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species, study finds
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Devastating Maui fire wipes out historic town Lahaina
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Greta Thunberg: ‘School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate’
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Phoenix area can’t meet groundwater demands over next century
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When the sun sets and the magic ends, these birds wreak havoc
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Mumbai embraces its booming flamingo population
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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes
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Helsinki is tapping an unexpected source of energy to heat its homes – cold water extracted from deep in the Baltic Sea
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Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 net zero target casts doubt on other major climate plans – pledges to cease contributing to climate change demand greater scrutiny
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Paris has pledged to make the Seine swimmable by the 2024 Summer Olympics, investing in a $1.6 billion stormwater holding tank to curb sewage pollution
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Freya the walrus sinks boats and captures hearts in Norway – enchanting but unwittingly destructive 600kg marine mammal has taken up residence in Oslo fjord
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Rio Grande runs dry in Albuquerque for the first time in forty years
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The Orange Pill - Your city will be changed forever
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