Rio’s grassroots agroforestry sustains birds, bees & communities
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Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh
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Black days for black kites in Bangladesh’s growing capital city
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Every dusk in the University of Dhaka campus, in Bangladesh’s busy capital city of Dhaka, the canopies of the taller trees like Gogon sirish (Albizia richardiana), or Raj koroi, trees ..read more
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In highly urbanized Japan, city farmers are key to achieving organic goal
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TOKYO — The train to the farm rose from Tokyo’s labyrinthine subway network, revealing a hodgepodge of gray and tan buildings stretched on either side. The world’s largest metropolitan area ..read more
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Controversy brews over proposed dam on Kathmandu’s Bagmati River
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6M ago
KATHMANDU — The Bagmati River, coursing through Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, has transformed into a sewer canal in recent decades, with untreated raw sewage discharged into its waters. Officials are now ..read more
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Discriminatory U.S. housing policies still affect bird sightings 90 years later
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10M ago
Citizen scientists are the main “collectors” of all recorded bird data, especially in the United States. More than 600,000 eBird experts and enthusiasts alike report on the colorful plumage and ..read more
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The Amazon’s archaeology of hope: Q&A with anthropologist Michael Heckenberger
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11M ago
A professor at the University of Florida, Michael Heckenberger has been visiting and studying Indigenous peoples at the Upper Xingu River for decades and says the Amazon is already facing its tipping point: “It’s a tipping event ..read more
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São Paulo students plant mini-forests on school grounds as urban oases
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1y ago
Four thousand students planted nearly 10,000 trees on public school grounds in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2022, and another eight mini-forests will be planted in 2023 ..read more
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Five ways to increase tree cover in cities (commentary)
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1y ago
From increases in severe storms to warming average temperatures, the climate crisis presents pressing challenges to environmental and social conditions around the world. Forests have been recognized as a key ..read more
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Bangladesh’s ‘bird restaurant’ serves up snacks with a side of conservation
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1y ago
DHAKA — It was a misty winter morning in February 2012. Shomour Kumar Ghosh started out his day by opening his sweetmeat shop in the district of Pabna in western ..read more
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